“The Caucuses and the Right to Vote”
Lawyers’ Committee has produced an interactive map of complaints about disenfranchisement in the use of caucuses.
Time to kill the caucuses.
Category Archives: political parties
“John Boehner just confirmed everything liberals suspected about the Republican Party”
Ezra Klein:
But don’t laugh it off. John Boehner was the Speaker of the House as recently as a single year ago. He is, himself, a conservative Republican. And he is saying, flatly, that the Republican Party has been captured… Continue reading
“Exclusive: Half of Americans think presidential nominating system ‘rigged’ – poll”
Reuters:
More than half of American voters believe that the system U.S. political parties use to pick their candidates for the White House is “rigged” and more than two-thirds want to see the process changed, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.… Continue reading
“Ballot Access Blues: California GOP Shuts Independents Out of Presidential Primary”
William Welch for Moyers & Co.
“Sanders campaign’s new strategy on superdelegates leaves some unimpressed”
LAT:
“You’re trying to woo us now, but we remember when you were trashing us,” said former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, one of 21 superdelegates from the state, the largest of five that hold primaries Tuesday.
“US election: Republican says delegate vote-buying and gifts are part of ‘the free market of politics'”
“Republicans Reject Effort to Alter Rules on Allowing New Candidate at Convention”
NYT:
A Republican National Committee panel on Thursday overwhelmingly rejected an effort to make preliminary changes to the rules governing the party’s convention this summer, batting away a move to make it more difficult for party leaders to draft a… Continue reading
“The Loophole That Could Cost Donald Trump the Nomination”
Nate Cohn for NYT’s The UpShot:
No other state leaves so many of its delegates unbound — allowed to vote for whomever they please at the convention. That’s because it conducts its loophole primary in two parts. First is the… Continue reading
“RNC Delegates Should Think Twice Before Accepting Bags of Cash”
“More setbacks for Trump, as Cruz outmuscles him — again — in delegate selection”
WaPo:
Donald Trump is on the verge of a big win in the New York Republican primary, but the GOP presidential front-runner had another terrible weekend in his bid to ensure that supporters show up at the Republican convention in… Continue reading
Today’s Must Read: LA Times on “American Independent” Voters Who Will Be Out of Democratic Presidential Primay
LAT:
With nearly half a million registered members, the American Independent Party is bigger than all of California’s other minor parties combined. The ultraconservative party’s platform opposes abortion rights and same sex marriage, and calls for building a fence along… Continue reading
“G.O.P. Chief Discourages Rule Changes That Seem to Block Donald Trump”
NYT reports.
Trump’s rhetoric crosses party lines. He’s now accused Ted Cruz of both voter fraud AND voter disenfranchisement.
“Cincinnati-inspired bribery law could affect Republican convention”
Cincinnati Enquirer:
Anyone seeking to sway the votes of delegates at the 2016 Republican Convention in Cleveland in July will have to navigate a state anti-bribery law inspired by corruption in Cincinnati more than 140 years ago.
According to… Continue reading