“Anti-Trump Republicans Call for a Third-Party Option”
If that’s what they want, they’d better get moving.
It may already be too late.
Category Archives: political parties
A Modest Proposal
How crazy is a Cruz-Rubio alliance against Trump where they leave it to *convention* to decide top of ticket and VP? I’d pay to watch that.
It’s like bringing the ultimate reality television to the Republican convention: Celebrity Apprentice meets… Continue reading
Will Colorado Abandon Its Caucuses for Primaries?
Will RNC Have Trouble Raising Corporate Money for Its Convention If Trump is the Nominee?
“Boulder caucus site turns away hundreds of Democrats”
“Why Is Anyone Still Doing Caucuses?”
Evan McMorris-Santoro for BuzzFeed:
About a half hour from the Las Vegas Strip, in a large public high school on the day the state’s Democratic nominating contest, a man stepped up onto the gym bleachers and shouted:
“Let’s make sure… Continue reading
More Ben Ginsberg on What’s Ahead with Delegates
Via Playbook:
BEN GINSBERG of Jones Day, the nation’s leading GOP elections lawyer, on MSNBC’s set at 30 Rock, said March 15 (including Florida and Ohio, both winner take all) “is kind of the cut-off day” for Cruz or… Continue reading
Freeing Republican Delegates at Convention to Kill Trump Nomination?
Trip Gabriel’s NYT story yesterday concludes as follows:
“I think the establishment will do anything in their power to try to stop Donald Trump at the national convention,” said John Patrick Yob, the former delegate strategist for Senator Rand Paul… Continue reading
Quote of the Day
“This whole thing is a really messy mixture of unintended consequences….The R.N.C. put in a system that was designed to let either an establishment figure or a very popular conservative grass-roots figure wrap up the nomination early. And Donald Trump… Continue reading
Colorado Appeals Court Says Political Party Can Create Super PAC with Unlimited Funding
Colorado Republican Party v. Colorado Ethics Watch:
“The First Amendment ‘“has its fullest and most urgent application” to speech uttered during a campaign for political office.’” Citizens United v. Fed. Election Comm’n, 558 U.S. 310, 339
(2010) (citation omitted).… Continue reading
“Trump trashes ‘dangerous’ caucus system”
“Campaigns secretly prep for brokered GOP convention”
Politico reports.
On a recent ELB Podcast, Ben Ginsberg says we would not have a “brokered” convention because there are no brokers anymore. That said, I would expect Ben would be one of those brokers should it get to this… Continue reading
Bauer on Countering Super PACs, My Critique, and Political Equality
Bob:
At the same time, there is room for reform–some adjustment to the regulatory process–that would account for the Super PACs’ emergence and widening impact. Transparency measures can clearly identify for the public those single-candidate Super PACs operating with the… Continue reading
6th Circuit Rejects Challenge to Ohio Law Keeping Partisan Information of Judicial Candidates Off Ballot
Opinion:
Ohio elects its state judges through a hybrid process. Judicial candidates are first selected through partisan primary elections. On the general-election ballot, however, their names show no partisan affiliation, even though judicial candidates may affiliate with political parties… Continue reading