“Advocacy group finds one-fifth of Latino voters leaning towards third-party presidential candidates”
Voto Latino finds a hefty amount of support for third-party options.
Category Archives: political parties
Parties in the process of closing up shop
“Far-right gains in EU election deal stunning defeats to France’s Macron and Germany’s Scholz”
EU parliamentary elections took place yesterday, with some significant wins by “far-right” parties — sufficiently significant in France to drive President Macron to dissolve the parliament and call a snap national election. (Counterpart: in Hungary, Prime Minister Orbán’s… Continue reading
Republican Party of Nebraska Fails to Oust Incumbents
AP News reported recently that after being taken over by loyalists to Trump, “[t]he Nebraska GOP . . . refused to endorse any of the Republican incumbents who hold all five of the state’s congressional seats.” In three instances, it… Continue reading
Candidate-Centered Top-Two Non-Partisan Primary Vulnerable to Manipulation
UPDATE: Two of the three Bob Fergusons have since withdrawn their papers.
This obscure but fascinating story from the Seattle Times reveals the vulnerability of top-two non-partisan primaries to partisan manipulation. Democratic Governor Jay Inslee is stepping down, leaving Washington’s… Continue reading
“Judge kills NJ’s controversial ballot design for Senate primary”
Politico:
New Jersey’s controversial ballot design that gives party-backed candidates an advantage will be scrapped in the June primary, a federal judge ruled on Friday.
U.S. District Judge Zahid Quraishi granted the preliminary injunction sought by Rep. Andy Kim and two Congressional… Continue reading
“Murkowski Won’t Vote for Trump and Declines Ruling Out Leaving the G.O.P.”
NYT:
Senator Lisa Murkowski, Republican of Alaska, said in an interview released on Sunday that she would not vote for former President Donald J. Trump. She also did not rule out the possibility of leaving the Republican Party.
In the… Continue reading
“Share of Democratic Registrations Is Declining, but What Does It Mean?”
Nate Cohn for NYT’s “The Tilt:”
Newly registered voters, who are disproportionately young and nonwhite, have tended to lean Democratic.
That’s been less and less true during the Biden era.
A majority of states ask people to select a party… Continue reading
“Bloodbath at RNC: Trump team slashes staff at committee”
Politico:
Donald Trump’s newly installed leadership team at the Republican National Committee on Monday began the process of pushing out dozens of officials, according to two people close to the Trump campaign and the RNC.
All told, the expectation is… Continue reading
“Michigan Republicans vote to remove chair Kristina Karamo as she promises not to accept result”
Politico:
Michigan Republicans have voted to remove state GOP Chair Kristina Karamo during a meeting Saturday after many of the party’s leaders called for her resignation following a year of leadership plagued by debt and infighting.
A large majority of… Continue reading
German Constitutional Court decision on state subsidies to political parties
Sam Issacharoff passes along this interesting January ruling from the German Constitutional Court. It found unconstitutional an increase in state subsidies to political parties on the grounds that the parties had an obligation to prove commitment from their constituents. The… Continue reading
Mainwaring and Drutman on multiparty presidentialism
Scott Mainwaring (Notre Dame) and Lee Drutman (senior fellow at New America) have this new whitepaper at Protect Democracy, “The Case for Multiparty Presidentialism in the U.S.“:
For many Americans, anything besides our two-party electoral system is hard… Continue reading
Indiana court finds law keeping Republican Senate candidate off primary ballot violates Anderson-Burdick, 17th Amendment
You can see the Marion County Superior Court’s decision in Rust v. Morales and commentary here. More commentary from the Indianapolis Star. The law requires primary candidates either (1) voted in that party’s past two primary elections or… Continue reading
RNC backs Donald Trump in ballot access dispute–when it didn’t back John McCain, Rick Perry, or Ted Cruz in years past
The Republican National Committee (joined by the National Republican Congressional Committee and the National Republican Senatorial Committee) filed an amicus brief in support of Donald Trump in the Minnesota ballot access dispute. In one sense, I suppose, that’s not so… Continue reading