Tired of Two Party Politics? Select Americans Elect!

Seeking to capitalize on Americans disappointment with current party politics, political officials from both sides have recently been pushing 'Americans Elect' as an alternative to politics as usual.  Americans Elect is planning on using an internet-based nomination process to get a candidate added to the 2012 Presidential Election ballot. Sounds interesting, but how will it work?

Recall Recall Redux

Even if you're not from Wisconsin you may want to pay attention to its politics. As some of you may recall from my earlier post, Wisconsin governor and college dropout Scott Walker is being threatened with a recall drive. Considering that this has only been successful twice in US history, you may shortly be witness to #3. The opposition has 60 days from the start of their drive to collect 540,000 signatures to force a recall election. A recent post on dailykos says they have collected roughly 300,000 signatures in just 12 days. For those of you like Governor Walker who are probably having trouble with the math, that's over 50% of the signatures needed, with 48 days left to collect. Walker claims he is not letting the recall campaign get in the way of his campaign promise to create at least 250,000 jobs in Wisconsin during his tenure. Considering recent job numbers out of the state I think he may have misspoke and instead meant to say that he wanted to create 250,000 more jobless in the state.

Recall, Recall, Read All About It!

For those of you either not living in or familiar with the politics in the State of Wisconsin, I want to bring your attention to an event that could shape national politics in the months and years to come. Starting this week a petition to recall governor Scott Walker has begun circulating. As many people will remember, Scott Walker's biggest achievement (read: disappointment) was to effectively outlaw public unions in an effort to defund the Democratic Party. Well, people weren't too happy with that, hence the recall petition. Now, Wisconsin has 60 days from this past Tuesday to collect 600,000 signatures to force a recall election of Walker.