Meet John Dennis, the 2010 Republican nominee in Rep. Nancy Pelosi's congressional district, and the House Minority Leader's likely general "run-off" election challenger in 2012 after Tuesday's novel top-two open primary. John Dennis is an antiwar Republican who supports gay marriage, legalizing marijuana, ending warrantless wiretaps, and withdrawing the military from Afghanistan and Iraq "as safely and quickly as possible".

Linda Parks thinks she can become the first “I” in the House of Representatives by not being a "me, too" politician.

“Being independent gives me a platform for pushing the public good. It’s the people instead of the party,” she said in an interview with IVN.

For those of us who supported the new Open Primary, the preliminary results are in far sooner than any of us could have expected.

In particular, the unexpected emergence of independent candidates so soon has already advanced the cause of introducing some much-needed intellectual competition into the process.

Tuesday, voters of Wisconsin will decide whether or not to recall Republican Gov. Scott Walker. As one of the most expensive elections in American history, the media has been covering the story in print and online. Meanwhile, residents and reporters take to Instagram to tell their story.

Californians Go to the Polls

The conservative base of the Republican Party was notoriously tepid in supporting front-runner Mitt Romney. But buried on page 16 of Thursday's New York Times, was a story suggesting that it's more than the party's conservatives who have dragged their feet to the Mitt Romney That Could.