In January 2014, the Independent Voter Project (IVP) withdrew an initiative for the general election ballot that would have required California to conduct nonpartisan elections for its presidential primary. IVP is the same organization that authored California's current nonpartisan "top-two" primary system, which already applies to elections conducted for congressional and state offices.

“By taxing and regulating marijuana we can take the lucrative market out of the hands of criminals and drug cartels and put it in the hands of tax-paying, law-abiding businesses,” Johnson declared.

Gene Berardelli wrote an article for IVN titled, "Hard evidence supports the need for Voter ID laws." While this is a common argument among proponents of voter ID, the existence of hard evidence necessitating the need for voter ID is a questionable proposition at best.

The Internet could have exploded as headlines surfaced that the Affordable Care Act (colloquially known as Obamacare) is going to result in the loss of 2 million jobs in the next 4 years, according to the latest report by the Congressional Budget Office. This would seem to vindicate popular claims in the Republican Party that Obamacare is the ultimate job killer.

So, if this is truly the case, it only seems fitting that we would see headlines like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6kgvhG3AkI

Watch the debate above.

Thirty billion dollars is a sizable amount of capital; the money could just as easily be used on domestic programs, like unemployment benefits or farm subsidies. Instead, $30 billion goes to military and economic aid for countries like Haiti, Pakistan, and Sudan -- to name a few.

When looking at politics in a marketing perspective, there are several interesting facts that a politician could really learn from to improve the dynamic interrelation between the supply and demand market of political participation for the American people.