The United States has a multiple political party system, but the Democratic Party and the Republican Party are by far the two main American political parties. The Green Party and the Libertarian Party are two other American parties with a…
The state-by-state rules for voting in the primaries in the United States are extremely complex, as each state has derived its own unique way of approaching the nominating primary. Because of this, voters should treat the information below as a…
Since many nonprofit organizations labeled 501c3s by the US Tax Code have severe restrictions on engaging in any political activities, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) offered a different designation for not for profit groups that wanted to specifically involve themselves…
The 2020 U.S. elections were memorable for many reasons, not least the whopping price tag that they carried. The most recent election cycle broke all sorts of records, with total spending reaching nearly $14 billion -- more than double the…
Many people are not aware that when they participate in elections to nominate and elect representatives, these representatives do a lot more than just passing laws in a distant capital. In fact, representatives help constituents in a number of ways;…
Pollsters actually can call cell phones, but there are a few restrictions which cause most pollsters to simply exclude cell phones from their polls. As cell phone usage rises, some organizations which track polling and the data collected on polls…
There actually is no legal reason why presidential primaries couldn't be held on the same day. There are, however, any number of political and logistical reasons why such a move would be counter-intuitive for both major political parties. While the…
The Working Families Party was first formed in 1998 in New York by a coalition of labor unions, community organizations and political activist groups that were dissatisfied with the ability of the two-party system to represent their views. New York’s…
The Progressive Party is a political party in the United States that was active in three American elections in the first half of the 1900s. Nicknamed the Bull Moose Party, the Progressive Party was established in 1912 as a division…
The Progressive Movement was an American reform movement that occurred principally during the time between the Reconstruction after the American Civil War and the entry of America into the First World War. Between the 1890s and the 1920s was a…