The Hill has this article about efforts by opponents of the No Labels presidential candidate idea to brief Democratic members of Congress about why they are so opposed to the plan. The opponents include the groups Move On and Third Way. Thanks to Thomas Jones for the link.

There are attempts being made to persuade the public that the No Labels’ presidential plan is illegitimate. For example, see this article at Real Clear Politics, written by Frank Donatelli and Leslie C. Francis. It is titled “The Threat To Our Two-Party Democracy.”

The authors are misusing the definition of “two-party system.” That phrase was coined in 1911 to describe the British party system. It means a system in which two parties are much larger than all the other parties. It doesn’t mean a system that only has two parties.

On July 7, the Iowa Republican Party determined that its presidential caucus next year will be January 15. By contrast, in 2020, it was February 3. Thanks to Thomas Jones for this news.

On July 6, the Maine Senate passed LD 769, which eases the definition of a qualified party. The bill had passed the House last month. The old definition of a qualified party was a group that had 5,000 registrants if it was in its first four years of legal existence, but afterwards had to have 10,000 registrants.

The bill eases that to simply define a qualified party as a group with 5,000 registrants, whether it is new or old.