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A Month Late With Its Rules, Debate Commission Still Denies Voters The Choices They Deserve
Update: On October 29, the Commission on Presidential Debates released its criteria for the 2016 fall debates. It maintains its 15% polling threshold for candidate inclusion. What polling agencies the ...
31 Oct, 2015
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Follow My Vote Introduces Revolutionary Online Voting Software at Web Summit 2015
Blacksburg, Va. — Follow My Vote has announced that they have been accepted into the Alpha Program at Web Summit 2015 in Dublin, Ireland. The global tech conference is scheduled to take place from Nov ...
29 Oct, 2015
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Will The 'Outsiders' Hand Hillary the Election?
Joe Biden will not run. Hillary Clinton not only survived the 11-hour Benghazi hearing, with many pundits claiming she looked “presidential,” while the Republicans ended up with yet more egg on their ...
29 Oct, 2015
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OPINION: We Must Be Allowed to Scrutinize A Candidate's Faith
In a recent stream-of-consciousness speech by Donald Trump at a weekend event in Iowa, he affirmed that he was a Presbyterian, and then he added, "Boy, that's down the middle of the roa ...
28 Oct, 2015
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Americans See a Problem With Religion, Politics -- For Everyone but Themselves
It seems that a good chunk of the 2016 primary season has been devoted to religion, either the preservation of freedoms or the contradictions between religion and science.It seems that 'everyone,' pri ...
28 Oct, 2015
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Why The Two Parties Are Horrible At Predicting the Future
A good share of politics-related content from the mainstream media (i.e., mass media outlets that convey content shaped by dominant thinking, influences, and activities) deals with predicting the futu ...
27 Oct, 2015
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Behind Closed Bars: How Do We Define Cruel and Unusual Punishment?
We've all heard metaphors about sending people to jail. “Don't drop the soap." “Big Bubba will like your purty mouth.” Many people find these metaphors humorous. This is odd, for it seems like th ...
26 Oct, 2015
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Being the Best 'Party Member' only Sabotages America
A few years ago, the CIA declassified a WWII field manual that was used to teach insurgents (or sympathetic citizens) of Germany-held areas to conduct simple sabotage, thereby hindering the enemy's wa ...
26 Oct, 2015
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3 Ways The Parties Have Diminished Your Power at the Ballot Box
It is no secret that the two major parties in the U.S have actively worked to rig the election system for their own benefit and so they can drown out any independent voices. I was reminded of this fac ...
23 Oct, 2015
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Beyond the Echo Chamber: A Roundup of Nonpartisan Election News -- October 20, 2015
The latest headlines on nonpartisan voting rights from across the nation. Enjoy.Who Controls Primary Elections, And Who Gets To Vote? Source: Jonathan Stahl, Constitution DailyMy Take: A good pi ...
20 Oct, 2015
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