About 20 minutes before last Thursday’s deadline for candidates to withdraw from this year’s elections in Tennessee, state Republican Party chairman Scott Golden sent Secretary of State Tre Hargett a letter disqualifying Franklin’s Raeshawn Sanchez from the August 2nd primary.Source: Roy Exum: GOP's "Bad Business"...
According to this article, the oral argument in the Alaska Supreme Court on March 29 went well for the Democratic Party, which was defending its lower court win.Source: Alaska Supreme Court Seems Likely to Rule that Parties May Let Independent Candidates Run in their Primaries...
For both Republicans and Democrats, the top reason to belong to a party is a belief that its policies will benefit the country. But sizable majorities in both parties cite the other party’s harmful policies as a major factor, according to a new national survey.Source: Why do people belong to a party? Negative views of the opposing party are a...
Imagine this year’s ballot with no Utah candidates listed as Republicans. Or, alternatively, the ballot listing only those Republicans who gathered signatures, while others who went through the GOP convention are shut out.Source: No Republican candidates on the Utah ballot this year? It’s a possibility after planned fix falters....
Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Ohio Gov. John Kasich will headline an event to debut a new group seeking to reform the California Republican Party.Source: Schwarzenegger, Kasich to team up in L.A. for group seeking to reform California GOP...
On February 8, the Utah House defeated HB 68 by 34-37. It would have given parties the right to exclude anyone from running in their primaries who did not show substantial support at a party meeting.Source: Utah Bill, Giving Parties Right to Confine Primary Ballot Only to Candidates with Support at a Party Meeting, Loses...
The Republican brand has been so severely damaged and diminished in California that, barring a dramatic reversal of fortune in the polls, the party will not have a candidate on the ballot for governor or U.S. senator in the November election.Source: Former Republican Steve Poizner will test California’s independent streak...
The following is a mathematical model of the Relative Strength of the two Major Parties in each of the 50 States of the American Union going into the 2018 General Election, based on how each State has voted for President of the United States, its own Governor, its Congressional delegation (that is:Source: The Green Papers Statewide Political Party Strength...
This San Francisco Chronicle article quotes several leaders of the California Republican Party on the problem that the top-two system will likely result in no Republican appearing on the November 2018 ballot.Source: California Republican Party Leaders Fret About Likelihood of No Republican on November Ballot for Governor...
Outside contributors' opinions and analysis of the most important issues in politics, science, and culture. It’s December 2020, and President Donald Trump has still refused to concede that he lost the tumultuous presidential election.Source: We need political parties. But their rabid partisanship could destroy American democracy....
