More Americans Elect Vogon Democracy: to Reverse our Policies, Just Contact...
Is this what Democracy looks like? Here’s an e-mail Americans Elect Policy Director Brian Findlay sent me late last night after I followed AE rules and formally moved to reverse its decision to allow...
View ArticleAmericans Elect: 1st Vote Finished Under Suppressed Turnout “Disaster”
Americans Elect has pushed the vote total in its first-ever completed vote down its servers’ memory hole, no longer to be seen by the public. Why did Americans Elect erase the vote tally? Because it...
View ArticleAmericans Elect Race to the Nomination Ballot (3/10/12): Turtles all the way...
Bill Busa, a frequent observer of Americans Elect with a critical eye for detail, has asked me to post the following graph and accompanying text he’s written about prospects for contenders to actually...
View ArticleThe 72 Post-Cancellation Tweets about Americans Elect
Since the morning of May 1, when Americans Elect was forced to cancel its first primary vote due to a very low participation rate, there have been just 72 posts on Twitter (“tweets”) using the hashtag...
View ArticleFEC Documents Reveal the Functional Center of Americans Elect: Wall Street Money
Meet the voters of Americans Elect. There are only three of them. Voter #1: Michael Bloomberg. Voter qualification: $500,000 in Wall Street money. Michael Bloomberg made billions of dollars selling...
View ArticleCoastline of United States Sharply Altered in Post-Election Cataclysm
The morning after the 2012 elections saw a starkly changed American landscape, changed in a very literal sense as large sections of the North American landmass collapsed into the ocean. As the dawn...
View Article49 Senators Vote to Double Student Loan Rates (Are Your Senators on the List?)
51 members of the United States Senate voted yesterday for S.1238, a bill to keep the interest rate for undergraduate loans at an annual rate of 3.4% rather than double the student loan rate to 6.8%...
View ArticleJesus and His Dad Damn Sodomite Illinois with 57 Degrees and Cloudy Skies
We keep hearing that God will punish communities that allow same-sex marriage. Well, today God had His chance. The Illinois House just voted to legalize same-sex marriage. What mighty weather judgment...
View ArticleAvg. Net Worth of Senators Voting to Cancel Unemployment Insurance: $6.98...
Last week, 45 U.S. Senators banded together to halt unemployment insurance for 1.5 million out-of-work Americans. The average estimated net worth of those 45 Senators is $6.98 million. The full list:...
View ArticleSusan Collins Votes for Big Out of State Money… While Taking Big Out of State...
On Thursday, September 11 2014, a minority of members of the U.S. Senate voted to block passage of S.J.Res. 19, a constitutional amendment that would let Congress and the states limit the influence of...
View ArticleBernie Sanders vs. Hillary Clinton on the Patriot Act (2001)
In the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primary, some comparisons are simple. If you’ve been paying any attention at all over the last fourteen years, you know that the USA PATRIOT ACT has been a...
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