Committee: Vote David Walker for President First. You’ll get his Policy Ideas later.

Jim Cook 4/25/2012
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The campaign to Draft David Walker for President is an awfully strange one in many ways, right down to David Walker himself making an appearance on national TV to declare that he wasn’t running for president, and he wasn’t encouraging …

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Americans Elect delists Nick Troiano, adds 3 New Members to its Board of Advisors

Jim Cook 4/24/2012
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With a revision made public today, these are the three new members of the Americans Elect Board of Advisors, with details exactly as listed by Americans Elect: Alice Finn CEO, PowerHouse Assets, LLC Michael J. Horvitz Jerry Jasinowski The Former …

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Halderman offers Free Course on Electronic Voting

Jim Cook 4/24/2012
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By September 3 2012, the apparently abortive online nominating voting via Americans Elect will have concluded. With hidden votes already happening and the secret ballot done away with, it will be a time for reflection on the future of internet …

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5 Big Media Mentions get David Walker for President 31 more Votes

Jim Cook 4/23/2012
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How does one Americans Elect draft committee called “The Committee to Get Walker Running,” representing a Americans Elect presidential candidate named David Walker, manage to get 5 big media mentions in one day (#1 | #2 | #3 | #4 …

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Committee to Get Walker Running Supporters connected to Americans Elect and Concord Coalition

Jim Cook 4/21/2012
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The Committee to Get Walker Running, a group trying to kick start a Draft David Walker for President campaign, has 10 public supporters on the morning of April 21 2012. This count comes from a causes.com web page prominently linked …

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David Walker for President: The People, The Connections

Jim Cook 4/20/2012
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Five names have emerged in the leadership of The Committee to Get Walker Running, an entity at draftwalker.com that yesterday morning was nothing but a splash page… …but which by yesterday afternoon was being used to vigorously (and with non-disclosed …

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Unity08 All Over Again: Americans Elect Leader Steps Down to Start Draft David Walker Campaign

Jim Cook 4/17/2012
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When it became clear that despite its money and inside connections Unity08 was not attracting popular support, its two chief leaders abandoned their pretense to not having a preferred presidential candidate and stepped down from Unity08 to start the Draft …

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Liberal Alternatives To Kirsten Gillibrand

jclifford 4/16/2012
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Kirsten Gillibrand is facing challenges from two liberal candidates in the 2012 U.S. Senate race in New York.

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A Weak Week in Votes and Tweets for Americans Elect

Jim Cook 4/15/2012
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As AE Transparency notes, another week has passed during which the Americans Elect presidential contenders have failed to attract enough supporters to qualify for the May 8 Americans Elect presidential primary ballot — the nation’s first-ever privatized all-online presidential nomination …

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Americans Elect Leaders Can’t Stop Themselves from Weighing in on the Presidential Race

Jim Cook 4/10/2012
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Americans Elect has a neutrality policy for itself as a collectivity and for its directors, officers and paid staff. FAQ: Does Americans Elect support any candidate? No. Americans Elect, its directors, officers, and paid staff do not and will not …

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Americans Elect Quietly Upgrades Candidate Status of David Walker, from Outsider to Insider

Jim Cook 4/9/2012
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In the last week, Americans Elect has quietly gone out of its way to change the ballot access terms for David Walker, a presidential candidate about whom Americans Elect has written glowingly and who also sits on its Board of Advisors. Why has Americans Elect gone to this trouble? Nobody knows.

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What Kind of Independence Drives the Independence Party of New York?

Jim Cook 4/8/2012
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These last few days I’ve been making preparations to review a book written by a longtime leader of the Independence Party of New York. I’ve heard some funny things about the Independence Party of New York, mostly alleging some form …

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Draft Donald Trump for President? After 2 months, it’s Snooki Plus 97

Jim Cook 4/7/2012
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I don’t know if you can believe anything Snooki says, but apparently she wants Donald Trump to run for President in 2012. If she really is one of them, the problem is that only 97 other people in America seem …

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Jill Stein Gains Ballot Access For Greens In New Mexico

jclifford 4/5/2012
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Yesterday, Jill Stein announced that, in cooperation with the New Mexico Green Party, her campaign had successfully gathered more than enough signatures to get the Green Party on the ballot in New Mexico. She did so without accepting any corporate support. Jill Stein is showing that Rocky Anderson was wrong – an alternative presidential candidate does not need to run into the arms of big corporate money to gain ballot access.

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Americans Elect Says One Thing, Does Another Episode #472: The Lobbyist Hokey Pokey

Jim Cook 4/4/2012
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Americans Elect used to say it didn’t have any ideology and just wanted to help Americans resurrect democracy as they saw fit. Then Americans Elect squelched turnout in its first two delegate votes and its Political Director revealed Americans Elect …

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Americans Elect Presidential Candidates Fall Further Away from Easy Ballot Access Threshold

Jim Cook 4/1/2012
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For a serious presidential candidate with real grassroots support, it wouldn’t be that hard to qualify for the Americans Elect presidential ballot. 1,000 signatures in each of 10 states for insiders? Even without a dime, Howard Dean’s supporters could have …

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Buddy Roemer Buying Votes in the Americans Elect Presidential Nomination With “Swag”

Jim Cook 3/28/2012
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Just when you thought the Americans Elect circus couldn’t get any more zany… … Even though he’s the frontrunner among Americans Elect declared candidates, Buddy Roemer is far from getting enough “support” votes to actually make it onto the ballot. …

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NPR Audience Doesn’t Go With the Buddy Roemer Flow

Jim Cook 3/27/2012
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As week after week after week passes, initial moderate flows of support to Americans Elect candidates have slowed to tepid streams and finally down to a meager trickle. This past Saturday, AE Transparency compiled statistics on how close drafted and …

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