Showing posts with label Louisiana closed primaries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Louisiana closed primaries. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Louisiana Victory for Independents: Open primary bill wins Senate approval
Open primary bill wins Senate approval BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - A plan to return the state to an "open primary" system for congressional elections is one step from final legislative passage, after getting approval from the state Senate... Good news for independent voters!
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
TODAY'S NEWS HEADLINES for INDEPENDENT VOTERS
- Idaho Repubs vs. independents in court on Feb. 18 over open primary
- California voters should go for open primaries referendum
- The strange land of Louisiana politics - can a porn star get elected?
- New York Independence Party tangled up in blue...
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
TODAY'S NEWS HEADLINES for INDEPENDENT VOTERS
OPEN PRIMARIES
WA: Parties should work within framework of Top 2 primary (The Daily News editorial) State political party leaders have been battling in court ever since. They claim they are being denied their right to choose who represents the party. But that obscures the core issue here, which is who owns the primary process, the parties or the people.
LA: State to probe blocked ballots-Some couldn't vote in 2nd District race (Times Picayune) Secretary of State Jay Dardenne said he is trying to determine how many independents were wrongly barred from voting in the 2nd Congressional District primary Saturday before he certifies the results.
CAMPAIGN
Independent Voters Move Toward Obama (Wall Street Journal)
THIRD PARTIES
WA: Parties should work within framework of Top 2 primary (The Daily News editorial) State political party leaders have been battling in court ever since. They claim they are being denied their right to choose who represents the party. But that obscures the core issue here, which is who owns the primary process, the parties or the people.
LA: State to probe blocked ballots-Some couldn't vote in 2nd District race (Times Picayune) Secretary of State Jay Dardenne said he is trying to determine how many independents were wrongly barred from voting in the 2nd Congressional District primary Saturday before he certifies the results.
CAMPAIGN
Independent Voters Move Toward Obama (Wall Street Journal)
THIRD PARTIES
- Third parties: less than the sum of their parts (Iowa Independent) REG: Right. You’re in. Listen. The only people we hate more than the Romans are the Judean People’s Front....
- The Race for 3rd Place (Taki's Magazine) In recent years, there has been little room for serious third-party challenges on the right. The two most successful—George Wallace in 1968 and Ross Perot in 1992—were difficult to classify ideologically and did not appeal exclusively to conservatives.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
TODAY'S NEWS HEADLINES for INDEPENDENT VOTERS
INDEPENDENT VOTERS
Kenric Ward: More voters declare their independence (TCPalm -Treasure Coast/Palm Beach FL) According to the latest figures from the state Division of Elections, a smaller percentage of Floridians call themselves Democrats than they did eight years ago (44.3 percent in 2000; 40.7 percent in 2008). So where are the voters going? Independent parties and non-partisan affiliation.
REFORM
WA: New primary election rules make voting better (Tri-City Herald) The change should come as a relief to the many independent voters who cringed every time they were forced to use the "pick-a-party" format.
LA: Competition for Congress is intense (Houma Today The Courier - LA) Return of party primaries
OR: It’s a communist plot (LETTER Albany Democrat Herald - OR) Phil Keisling and open primaries: trying to have communistic doctrine made state law.
SC: Aiken to vote on nonpartisan races (South Carolina Bureau, Augusta Chronicle) Mr. LeDuc said Aiken is one of only six cities in the state that still hold partisan elections.
NEW YORK POLITICS/INDEPENDENCE PARTY
NOTE: Both the venerable New York Times and the somewhat less than venerable New York Sun gave space yesterday to a New York City Independence Party Board of Elections filing for State Committee by Bernie Goetz (remember the guy who shot 4 unarmed black youth on a subway back in the '80s?). Goetz filed 2 signatures in an attempt to get on the ballot to run against long-time independent leader Fred Newman, the primary tactician of the independent movement here in New York and nationally. (Goetz won't make the ballot -- you need 117 to get on....) Read here:
Bernard Goetz Vying for Independence Committee Seat (Special to the NY Sun) * Goetz Enters Independence Party Race (By Jonathan P. Hicks, NY Times/City Room)
Kenric Ward: More voters declare their independence (TCPalm -Treasure Coast/Palm Beach FL) According to the latest figures from the state Division of Elections, a smaller percentage of Floridians call themselves Democrats than they did eight years ago (44.3 percent in 2000; 40.7 percent in 2008). So where are the voters going? Independent parties and non-partisan affiliation.
REFORM
WA: New primary election rules make voting better (Tri-City Herald) The change should come as a relief to the many independent voters who cringed every time they were forced to use the "pick-a-party" format.
LA: Competition for Congress is intense (Houma Today The Courier - LA) Return of party primaries
OR: It’s a communist plot (LETTER Albany Democrat Herald - OR) Phil Keisling and open primaries: trying to have communistic doctrine made state law.
SC: Aiken to vote on nonpartisan races (South Carolina Bureau, Augusta Chronicle) Mr. LeDuc said Aiken is one of only six cities in the state that still hold partisan elections.
NEW YORK POLITICS/INDEPENDENCE PARTY
NOTE: Both the venerable New York Times and the somewhat less than venerable New York Sun gave space yesterday to a New York City Independence Party Board of Elections filing for State Committee by Bernie Goetz (remember the guy who shot 4 unarmed black youth on a subway back in the '80s?). Goetz filed 2 signatures in an attempt to get on the ballot to run against long-time independent leader Fred Newman, the primary tactician of the independent movement here in New York and nationally. (Goetz won't make the ballot -- you need 117 to get on....) Read here:
Bernard Goetz Vying for Independence Committee Seat (Special to the NY Sun) * Goetz Enters Independence Party Race (By Jonathan P. Hicks, NY Times/City Room)
Sunday, February 10, 2008
TODAY'S NEWS HEADLINES for INDEPENDENT VOTERS
HANKSTER LEDE: Independents on the rise-In N.C. and elsewhere, more voters are shunning affiliation with party (Charlotte Observer)
NEW HAMPSHIRE: Biggest winner so far: voter turnout (Los Angeles Times) in NH, biggest registration increase was independent * 'Star-struck lefties'are in good company (Letter to Concord Monitor) independents also supporting Obama
NATIONAL: Whom Will Independents Choose? (By Katharine Q. Seelye, The Caucus/New York Times)
CALIFORNIA: Why GOP selectively restricts its voters-Independents are eligible to cast ballots in all Republicans' primaries – except for president. (Sac Bee) * This year shows why primary system must change (San Francisco Chronicle) * Full count sought of disputed votes in primary (Daily Breeze)
WASHINGTON: Count me out of this primary (John Laird, The Columbian) * Obama beats Clinton 2-1; McCain edges Huckabee (By David Postman, Seattle Times)
LOUISIANA: Voters called in droves Saturday (Shreveport Times) Independents angry at exclusion
BLOOMBERG: Mike's one 'L' of a candidate (NY Daily News)
NEW HAMPSHIRE: Biggest winner so far: voter turnout (Los Angeles Times) in NH, biggest registration increase was independent * 'Star-struck lefties'are in good company (Letter to Concord Monitor) independents also supporting Obama
NATIONAL: Whom Will Independents Choose? (By Katharine Q. Seelye, The Caucus/New York Times)
CALIFORNIA: Why GOP selectively restricts its voters-Independents are eligible to cast ballots in all Republicans' primaries – except for president. (Sac Bee) * This year shows why primary system must change (San Francisco Chronicle) * Full count sought of disputed votes in primary (Daily Breeze)
WASHINGTON: Count me out of this primary (John Laird, The Columbian) * Obama beats Clinton 2-1; McCain edges Huckabee (By David Postman, Seattle Times)
LOUISIANA: Voters called in droves Saturday (Shreveport Times) Independents angry at exclusion
BLOOMBERG: Mike's one 'L' of a candidate (NY Daily News)
Saturday, February 09, 2008
TODAY'S NEWS HEADLINES for INDEPENDENT VOTERS
HANKSTER LEDE: The Disaffected Voters Who'll Decide 2008 (By Douglas E. Schoen, Washington Post) AND La. primary a disappointment for independent voters (Shreveport Times)
VIRGINIA: Exclusive ABC 7 and SurveyUSA Poll: Chesapeake Primary (WJLA ABC 7 News)
WASHINGTON: Gregoire endorses Obama (Seattle Post Intelligencer)
POLLS: The Clinton Lead: Less Than Four Percentage Points (Forbes)
VIRGINIA: Exclusive ABC 7 and SurveyUSA Poll: Chesapeake Primary (WJLA ABC 7 News)
WASHINGTON: Gregoire endorses Obama (Seattle Post Intelligencer)
POLLS: The Clinton Lead: Less Than Four Percentage Points (Forbes)
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
TODAY'S NEWS HEADLINES for INDEPENDENT VOTERS
- Women for President (Seattle Times)
- Sam Nunn Mulls Presidential Bid on Unity08 Ticket (Outside the Beltway and Washington Post The Trail)
- Citizen Bloomberg--influencing the dialogue (Huffington Post)
- Obama will increase black voter turnout (San Francisco Chronicle)
- JFK replay: 'Naive' Obama right on foreign policy (Theodore Sorensen - Des Moines Register)
- Louisiana Republican Party Closes Congressional Primaries (Ballot Access News and KATC)
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