Frustrated, Americans Elect Delegate Opens Town Hall, Invites Everyone to Participate

Updated 4/28 10:08 pm to reflect the fact, confirmed at http://aetownhall.com/node/119#new, that Americans Elect delegate BarberB has created the Americans Elect Town Hall website independently: “I built this website on my own with no support for AE, and in fact …

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Mike McIntyre Uses Prayer As A Pose For Power

Congressman Mike McIntyre doesn’t care enough about prayer to center his own life around the practice, so what right does he have to lecture to the rest of us about how we’re not praying enough?

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Every Identifiable Student in new Draft David Walker Video is Americans Elect Campus Leader

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Americans Elect is supposed to be neutral. But is the infrastructure of Americans Elect being used to promote David Walker for President? Look for yourself. Watch this new “Draft Walker” video featuring a series of college students: I can’t positively …

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

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

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

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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Who is Martin Appel?

An empty rented office. A huge proportion of legal fees. Independent expenditures to oppose Barack Obama. Who is this Martin Appel?

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

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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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Congressman Jeff Denham’s Compressed Gas Party

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Kathryn Lehman started out in politics in the 1990s, working for the ethically-challenged Tom DeLay and Newt Gingrich. She has since discovered that there’s more money to be made working for corporations, so she’s traded in on her political contacts and now roams the halls of Congress working to influence American law on behalf of her corporate clients – including the Compressed Gas Association.

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

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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

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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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Americans Elect Rapid Response Team and Americans Elect Twitter Day

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Look at this website; it’s called AEvolunteers.com: The website, which appears on google search, is working off a server in Santa Rosa and has cloaked its registrant with a privacy barrier, but is using the latest Americans Elect logos and …

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Buddy Roemer Won’t Be the Arithmetic President

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One of Buddy Roemer’s latest tweets sounds fairly optimistic for a presidential candidate who has been working to get people to vote for him on Americans Elect for three months and who has less than a month to go: Thing …

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

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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Hillary Clinton 2016?

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Is the growing popularity of Hillary 2016 due to a quality that Clinton has herself, or is it due more to fatigue with the Obama vs. Romney contest we’re currently supposed to be focused on?

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Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board Nominees in Senate Appointment Hearing 4/18/12

Four months after President Barack Obama finally nominated 5 people to sit on the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, the Senate Judiciary Committee will be holding a hearing to gather the nominees’ testimony in advance of a vote. On …

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Liberal Alternatives To Kirsten Gillibrand

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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

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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