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playing field and become vulnerable to independent voices and new ideas. One notable example is that of former wrestler and Navy SEAL Jesse Ventura. Running for governor of Minnesota in 1998, Ventura was polling at 10% as late as September. Minnesota…

). Our story actually begins before Ron Paul made waves in the 2008 and 2012 Republican primaries. Way back in 1998, a total political outsider with no party affiliation used the early Internet to mobilize a campaign that swept him into the Minnesota…

again for the White House, he no longer had a movement with him but a shell that attracted a mix of hucksters and hangers-on, ranging from Pat Buchanan on the right to Lenora Fulani on the left. Only in Minnesota, where local Perotistas kept control of…

And there are too many moderates in Massachusetts and Minnesota for Bernie Sanders supporters to have counted those eggs before they hatched. With 18 states and American Samoa's primaries behind us, Joe Biden is now in the lead with a vote total across…

So as a result of the 'spoiler effect,' I’m going to vote for the ‘lesser of two evils.'. That closed system is anathema to the rest of our experience of life where we have more choices about everything else.". FairVote Minnesota organizer Mike Griffin…

northwestern Wisconsin of hardscrabble dairy farming, bitter winters and luminous springs. I’ve come here because my companion — a Minnesota-born outdoorsman of Swedish extraction who lived much of his adult life in Alaska and wears a thin fleece jacket in the cold…

responsibility that is often abused for partisan gain. In 2012, for instance, Minnesota's Democratic secretary of state re-named two amendments put on the ballot in a way that, according to the amendments' conservative proponents, misled voters. And in 2014, Kansas's…