This St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial hopes that the Republican and Democratic Parties will act to eliminate the automatic time preference that Iowa and New Hampshire enjoy, in the presidential selection process for those two parties.
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The Hoover Institution’s publication, Eureka, has this commentary about California’s top-two system by Steve Greenhut. It also has this commentary by Paul “Pete” Peterson.
UPDATE: the Greenhut piece has been republished in R Street, a Washington, D.C. politics blog. Also, it is in the Highland Community News (San Bernardino County).
On May 31, Monmouth University Polls released this general election presidential poll within New Jersey. It includes Gary Johnson and Jill Stein. See question three. The poll shows a somewhat narrow lead for Hillary Clinton inside New Jersey, whether Johnson and Stein are included or not. However Clinton’s lead is slightly larger when all four candidates are named. Thanks to Michael for the link.
The last time the Green Party completed a petition to be on the 2016 ballot for President was in the fall of 2015, when it completed its Arkansas presidential petition. The Nevada Green Party seems likely to be the first state Green Party to finish a petition during calendar year 2016. It has approximately 9,000 signatures and will submit the petition on June 1 or June 2. The legal requirement is 5,431. The Nevada Green Party got significant help from some individuals who had been working for the Bernie Sanders campaign, and who became angry with the recent Democratic delegate selection process in Nevada.
Steve Benen of MSNBC has this commentary on the recent Libertarian Party national convention. He contrasts the Libertarian convention to the expected characteristics of the upcoming Republican convention.
Brian Doherty of Reason has this article, one of the very few to try to analyze the dynamics of the convention’s decision on whom to nominate for President and Vice-President. The Libertarian Party issued 250 press credentials but virtually none of the mainstream press reported on the drama of how the nominations were decided, except for this Reason article.