Arizona and Washington DC
- 'Top 2' open primary a moderate solution (EDITORIAL Arizona Daily Sun) What if they gave a primary and everybody came?
- Arizonans like open system of primary voting (EDITORIAL Yuma Sun) Results of a survey released just prior to Tuesday's primary election indicate strong support for a nonpartisan approach to primary voting.
- D.C.'s unaffiliated voters, left out in the cold (EDITORIAL Washington Post) More perplexing is why D.C. Council members such as Mary M. Cheh (D-Ward 3), who have championed reforms to increase voting participation, would reject such sensible proposals as those of council member David A. Catania (I-At Large) to allow independents to vote in the primary election of a political party if the party permitted or to change party affiliation on the day of an election. Ms. Cheh told us that she's not necessarily opposed but that those issues hadn't been fully studied when the law was changed.
- Fenty Loses Bid to Recruit Extra Voters (by G'town Saucer, Georgetown Dish)
- Fenty's bid for independents: A sign of desperation? (By Bruce DePuyt, TBD Washington DC)
- Fenty maneuver rejected by voting board (By: FREEMAN KLOPOTT, Washington Examiner)
- Independent voters kept out of Democratic primary (By: FREEMAN KLOPOTT, Washington Examiner)
- BOEE Denies Petition To Allow Independent Voters To Change Parties (DCist)
- D.C. ruling to keep 'closed primary' system deals blow to Fenty campaign (By Mike DeBonis, Washington Post)
- DCBOEE blocks last minute rule change (By Tom Bridge, We Love DC) The difficult matter here has to do with the fact that in order to participate in the crucial elections in the District, you have to be registered as a Democrat. I don’t share much in common with the national party (though, truthfully, more in recent years than with Republicans), but here I am having to register as one in order to take part in the city’s biggest decision. This seems to me to be an odd choice that people would have to make in order to participate in a city’s governance.
- Loose Lips Daily: It’s BOEE Time Edition (Posted by Alan Suderman, Washington City Paper/LooseLips) Team Fenty took a big old swing and a miss at this morning’s Board of Elections and Ethics hearing on their petition to open up the Democratic primary to the 70,000+ unaffiliated voters on the city’s voter registration rolls. New Chairman Togo West ran a mostly tight ship during the morning’s testimony, which featured Fenty’s lawyers and two other dudes on one side, and the Gray campaign with down-ballot candidates, the D.C. Democratic Party, the AFL-CIO, and a whole lot of people on the other side.
- DC Independent Voters Can't Vote On Primary Day (WUSA 9)
- LA: Libertarians on Aug. 28 ballot (By MELINDA DESLATTE, Tri-Parish Times)
- Is the Tea Party Ready For Its November Close-Up? (By Rhodes Cook, Wall Street Journal/Capital Journal) Roughly 20% to 30% of Americans sympathize with the views of the Tea Party, according to polls taken over the course of this year. But a basic question is whether it is an independent political movement truly disgusted with both parties, or a very vocal and conservative subset of the GOP? Data tend to point to the latter.
- DeFede: Primary Night 2010 Winners And Losers (Jim DeFede, MIAMI (CBS4) In order to win a three way Senate race, Crist needs to not only collect moderate Republican and independent voters, he absolutely has to peel away Democratic voters as well. If Jeff Greene had won, there would have been a stampede of Democratic officials lining up to endorse Crist.
- Three-way Fla. Senate race begins without a clear favorite (By Dan Balz, Washington Post) Whether Crist has damaged himself by the decision to run as an independent or whether he has cleverly found the route to political survival is the central issue that voters will decide.
- Washington Veterans Take Senate Primaries (By DAMIEN CAVE, Washington Post) Mr. Crist released a statement on Tuesday night calling Washington “a swamp of partisan bickering, finger-pointing and destructive political games” and saying “we need independent leadership.”
- Roy Barnes' campaign of contrition (By Melissa Maynard, Stateline) “Amazingly, Roy Barnes remains in contention despite the fact that the head of his party nationally, Barack Obama, has reached a phenomenally low level of support in Georgia,” says Matt Towery, the CEO of InsideAdvantage, the firm that conducted the poll. Virtually as many Georgia voters identify as independents as identify with either party, Towery notes, and “the race really boils down to independent voters.”
- State Sen. Joe Addabbo Loses Bid For Working Families Party Line (BY GLENN BLAIN, Daily News/Daily Politics) With the Democrats holding only a one seat majority in the Senate, the Addabbo-Como contest is likely to be among the most-closely watched races this year and could determine whether the GOP retains control of the chamber.
- NYC Charter Revision Proposals: A Hobson’s Choice (Citypragmatist) Ballot Access: Generally reduce the number of petition signatures needed by candidates for city elective office to appear on a ballot; This would make it easier for newcomers to challenge party regulars, and for third-party candidates to unseat Democrats and Republicans. Several critics, including Jim Brennan, who heads up the State Assembly committee that oversees municipal charter revisions, have cautioned against it. Yes, he’s a Democrat.
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