With Amy Acton opting to not run for U.S. Senate, Rep. Tim Ryan essentially has a clear path to the Democratic Party’s nomination for the position next year.
There is still time for other Democrats to get into the race Ohio House Minority Leader Emilia Sykes, D-Akron, and Franklin County Commissioner Kevin Boyce, a former state treasurer, still are considering it.
But Ryan, D-Howland, has momentum and a nice haul of $1.2 million during the first quarter, even though he won’t officially declare his candidacy until later this month.
Avoiding a competitive primary that will cost his campaign money is something Ryan desperately needs because whoever ends up being the Republican nominee almost certainly will raise more money than he does. If Ryan doesn’t have to spend a few million dollars on a primary, he can use that toward his general election campaign.
Just a few weeks after the storming of the Capitol and the impeachment trial, Gallup found for the first time that 50% of voters identify as independents. Registered independent voters are now the largest or second largest group of voters in half the states and will be the largest or second largest group of voters in almost every state in the country within a few years at current rates of growth.
More significant than the raw numbers which are impressive independent voters are participating in ways that don’t conform to either party’s playbook. Independents don’t just decide outcomes; they are creating new conversations, causing trouble for both parties, and advancing a nonpartisan democracy agenda.
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In a previous piece, I posted my livestream addressing the history between the Republican Party and the black community. I discussed the historical events and decisions that led African Americans to overwhelmingly support the Democratic Party.
As the initial video was three hours long, I decided to break it up into smaller chunks to make it easier to consume. In this first section, I discuss the Lily-White movement that arose in the GOP shortly after the end of Reconstruction and how it spread to southern states.
In the presentation, I detail how the movement eventually took power in various state’s Republican Parties and systematically began ousting black leaders in a bid to appeal to southern white voters. The movement led to the GOP’s alienating black voters to the extent that they began seriously considering the Democratic Party despite the fact that it was also full of southern whites who weren’t too keen on the notion that blacks should be
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The Virginia Department of Elections’ (ELECT) Commissioner Christopher Piper announced March 2 that Virginia’s elections administrators have successfully completed the state’s risk-limiting audit (RLA) for the November 2020 Election.