The Libertarian Party of Maine filed a federal lawsuit on January 4 seeking official recognition as a party on Maine’s election ballots.
Rasmussen Reports released the results of a new survey Thursday that found that a majority of respondents (56%) say they are less likely to vote for a candidate who uses negative attack ads against his or her election rival(s). Further, 60 percent see a major disparity between TV ads that attack opposing candidates than promote the candidacy of the person running for office.
North Korea recently announced the successful testing of a hydrogen bomb.
Though the first caucuses and primaries are still weeks away, Hillary Clinton already has a significant lead in the race for the Democratic Party's nomination.
MANCHESTER, N.H., Jan. 5, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Huntsman and Lieberman will announce the 2016 presidential candidates who have made the No Labels Problem Solver Promise, which entails a commitment from the candidates to begin work within the first 30 days in office on a bipartisan effort to achieve at least one of four goals in No Labels' National Strategic Agenda.
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Former governor of New Mexico and 2012 Libertarian presidential nominee for president, Gary Johnson, announced his candidacy for president Wednesday. Johnson made the announcement via Neil Cavuto's show on Fox Business, saying, "I'm hoping to get the Libertarian nomination for president in 2016."
The North Carolina State Board of Elections finalized the list of qualified candidates for the state's primary elections Tuesday, certifying 27 candidates for 3 party ballots.
In other words, there are 27 candidates running in the primary elections in North Carolina, but because the state holds partisan primary elections, voters will not be able to choose from all 27 candidates.
Gallup reports that 16 percent of respondents mentioned some aspect of government as the U.S.'s most dire problem. This includes President Barack Obama, Congress, partisanship, or other political disputes. Thirteen percent named some aspect of the economy, which is down 4 percentage points from the previous year.
In the past two years, no issue has risen above a yearly average of 20 percent. The highest monthly average for government during 2015 was 19 percent, while the lowest was 13 percent.
One can ask what most accurately describes the essence of intelligent, objective, public service-oriented politics. Is it primarily an honest competition among the dominant ideologies of our times, a self-interested quest for influence and power or a combination of the two? Does it boil down to understanding the biological functioning of the human mind and how it sees and thinks about the world? Or, or is it something else entirely?
In a country with almost 320 million citizens, the secret ballot in elections almost ensures one simple fact--that voting fraud will exist, either from voters or the structure itself.
The secret ballot isn't a truly time honored institution in America -- only universally applied for a little over 100 years. In fact, Grover Cleveland was the first U.S. president elected exclusively by the secret ballot.