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There were three critical swing states in which the Green Party appeared on the ballot in 2016 and didn’t appear in 2020. The states of Arizona, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania all removed the Green Party from the presidential election in 2020, with Democratic operatives using underhanded tactics to kick them off. Labor activist Howie Hawkins was the Green Party’s 2020 presidential nominee. In 2016, the Green Party nominee Jill Stein won more than 34,000 votes in Arizona. If a Green Party candidate had appeared with ballot access in the state in 2020, he or she would’ve been sure to win enough...

We told you that tonight's New York gubernatorial debate—with seven participants!—would be crazy, but we could have never anticipated this level of it: watch as Jimmy McMillan, of the "Rent Is Too Damn High" party, uh... introduces himself. Most amusing video at link http://tv.gawker.com/5667182/crazy-rent-is-too-damn-high-candidate-steals-the-show

One of the most macabre images I've ever heard de scribed came in the after math of the Asian tsunami in 2004. Before the tidal wave crashed on shore, beachgoers stood around and idly gaped as the water drastically receded. Bewildered, they didn't realize they were looking at the prelude to a calamity. The Democratic Party looks more and more like those beachgoers every day, watching popular support recede, oblivious to the Perot tsunami coming our way. In 1992, the incumbent president, George H.W. Bush, was a disappointment to his party's base and a pariah to the Democrats. Government seemed...

In an April 30, 2009 press release, House Republican Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) issued a welcome statement announcing the formation of the National Council for a New America, which is reportedly a forward-looking, grassroots caucus intended to bring together Congressional leaders and the people, with a national panel of “experts.” That’s the good news! (snip) So, who are these “experts” that will lead the pro-American Right, back to its rightful place in national leadership? And, before we start talking about solutions, can we please properly define the problem?

Increasing numbers of Pennsylvanians who register to vote are identifying themselves as members of third parties, despite a closed primary system that permits only major party members to cast ballots in Pennsylvania's primary elections. Voters are asked to select a party affiliation when they register to vote. And an analysis of voter rolls in Westmoreland County shows that some people are choosing historic -- even eccentric -- political parties. Four county voters, for example, are registered as Whigs. The party last held serious sway in 1856, before it was absorbed into the newly organized Republican Party. "Obviously, the Whigs, it's...