This New York Daily News story says that it is possible New York in 2012 will end up with an April presidential primary, an August congressional primary, and a September primary for state and local office. Each primary would cost taxpayers $50 million to administer.
On November 2, an ABC News/Washington Post Poll was released. The press release is titled, “Major Parties Struggle for Popularity; Interest in an Alternative is Broad.” See the results here.
Even though the Ohio Secretary of State issued a directive late on November 1, putting the Americans Elect, Constitution, Green, Libertarian and Socialist Parties on the 2012 ballot, and even though that directive is on the Secretary of State’s web page, so far the mainstream media in Ohio have run no stories about this news. Here is the link on the Secretary of State’s web page to the directive.
“The Daily Caller” is an on-line news service about U.S. politics. It was founded last year by Tucker Carlson and Neil Patel, both of whom are Republicans. The November 2 has two stories about minor party potential to alter the 2012 presidential election: (1) this one, in which Roger Stone says that the Republican Party is threatened by such outside candidates; (2) this one, about Americans Elect.
On November 1, the Republican majority in the Arizona Senate voted to support removing the Chair of the Arizona Redistricting Commission, an independent. The Commission has five members, two Democrats, two Republicans, and an independent. The legality of the removal is contested. See this story, which explains both the Republican slant on this story (that the Chair was guilty of “gross misconduct”) and the Democratic slant on the story (that the Chairman, Linda Mathis, did nothing wrong, and Republicans are only removing her because they don’t like the boundaries of the new districts).
If the removal is upheld by Arizona state courts, Democrats may launch recall drives against some of the Republican State Senators who voted to remove Mathis.
On November 1, the Arizona Secretary of State released new registration data for each party. See this story. This is the first Arizona tally to include Americans Elect, which has 69 registered members.