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.

Who is funding the Democratic and Republican presidential campaigns? Political watch-dog group, OpenSecrets.org presents the facts in the following infographic. An interesting fact: Ron Paul's campaign doesn't use bundlers.