Lawrence Lessig has this essay in The Daily Beast, explaining why the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) breaks Federal Campaign law when it holds General Election Presidential Debates… Read More
The Libertarian Party is America's third largest political party, founded in 1971.
Their vision is for a world in which all individuals can freely exercise the natural right of sole dominio… Read More
The United States may be the world’s oldest continuous Democracy, but experience does not equal enthusiasm.
In its most recent National Election, the U.S. had the ninth-lowest voting… Read More
David Shipley, Senior Editor for Bloomberg View’s Editorials wrote this opinion.
Tonight’s Presidential debate will be a failure. Not because of the moderator’s questions… Read More
A company controlled by Trump secretly conducted business in Communist Cuba during Fidel Castro’s Presidency despite strict American trade bans that made such undertakings illegal, acc… Read More
Michelle Obama, Green Party Candidate for President(a speculative never-gonna-happen in 3 thoughts)Is this a long shot? Certainly. There are myriad reasons why Michelle Obama will never run… Read More
The U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. heard oral arguments today in the Lawsuit filed by Level the Playing Field (LPF) challenging the Nonprofit status of the Commission on Presidentia… Read More
Why Wolfram Alpha?
Among my passions, I love to check financial data about companies I like. Recently I was looking for a quick way to get reliable financial information for comparative anal… Read More
Steve Rose explains in the Kansas Star how Independent Greg Orman could be Elected Kansas Governor in 2018.
Today, in the U.S. there is only One Independent serving as Governor, Bill Walker… Read More
"Shields and Brooks on budget deal economics, White House domestic abuse scandal" PBS NewsHour 2/9/2018ExcerptSUMMARY: Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist Da… Read More
No Minor Party in New York Won more than a Small Fraction of Total Votes cast in the 2018 Election, but that has not stopped Parties on the edges of the State Political Landscape from stakin… Read More
An Effort to bring Ranked-Choice Voting (RCV) to Pueblo has quietly started lining up Support for a more ambitious Target, the Statewide 2020 Ballot, that could have sweeping Implications fo… Read More
Abolishing the Electoral College and creating a National Popular Vote are far-fetched ideas for now. But there’s a more Targeted way to Reform American Elections starting with the Swin… Read More
Jacqueline Salit, President of IndependentVoting.org, Obituary penned by Jackie Salit in Memory of Ross Perot. It ran in the Washington Post and New York Times
It reads:
Ross Perot pionee… Read More
The Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD), the Nonprofit that has run the General Election Presidential Debates starting with 1988 Election, announced the Schedule for Three Presidential… Read More
Thanks to Richard Winger of Ballot Access news for this post.
The U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit, will hear Level the Playing Field v Federal Election Commission, 19-5117, on Monday, F… Read More
The Libertarian Party, Green Party, and the Nonprofit Advocacy Group Level the Playing Field, have been Challenging the Debate Qualifications for the Presidential Debate, for Six years, argu… Read More
We’re about three months away from Early Voting in New York. So lets check the Schedule for the General Election Debates.
As a reminder, the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) i… Read More
Today, everybody is podcasting. But in 2004, it was a beginning phenomenon and my first experience with the term! My daughter, Karmyn, had recorded an album, and we premiered it at the… Read More
The 2024 Candidates for President will Not, square off, on a Debate Stage for around 39 months, but the Republican Party already is Demanding Big Changes from the Nonpartisan Commission on P… Read More