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The Independent View
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- Author: Michael Drucker
- Listed in: Political Independent
- Tags: politics independent voting ballot access
- Added on: May 23rd, 2007
- Country: United States
- Language: English
The Internet has made this the age of the instant political movement. Like-minded people (and even unlike-minded people) can find one another and quickly create a kind of critical mass. The hope, often the expectation, is that these new aggregations can bring positive change to the body politic. This includes seizing new opportunities for democratizing communication and communicating democracy, both of which are urgently needed.
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Open the Presidential Debates
Listen to Ralph Nader talk about Open Debates:Michael H. Drucker Technorati Tag in Del.icio.us ...
State Fusion Issues
On August 11, two ballot-qualified parties in Oregon filed a lawsuit in state court, alleging that the actual text of the Oregon election law does permit two parties to jointly nominate the same candidate. The plaintiffs include the Working Families ...
Is this Going to be a Paper Ballot Year?
Record number of US voters may cast paper ballots! By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSSAN DIEGO (AP) -- Come November, more Americans might cast their ballots on paper than in any other election in U.S. history.That wasn't supposed to happen. If everything had g...
Is Obama the End of Black Politics?
This article will appear in the 8/10/2008 Sunday's Times Magazine. The article is by Matt Bai, who covers politics for the magazine, is the author of “The Argument: Inside the Battle to Remake Democratic Politics.”"Forty-seven years after he last...
The Change in Voter Rolls
Well before Senators Barack Obama and John McCain rose to the top of their parties, a partisan shift was under way at the local and state level. For more than three years starting in 2005, there has been a reduction in the number of voters who regist...
