by Josh Guckert On Thursday afternoon, “Gary Johnson” began trending on Twitter. This appears to have stemmed from an article from Mother Jones. The piece by Jeremy Schulman entitled “Gary Johnson Wants to Ignore Climate Change Because the Sun Will Destroy the Earth One Day” and subtitled with “Attention, millennials…” seems only the latest attempt by…
by Rachel Stoltzfoos Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is quoted calling Tim Kaine a “terrible” choice for a running mate, in a book about the 2008 presidential elections. “One-in-eight chance,” Clinton is quoted as saying in the book “Game Change,” regarding President Barack Obama’s chances of winning the 2008 election if he chose Kaine as his running…
by Josh Guckert On Wednesday, Gary Johnson interviewed with USA Today Opinion Editor Bill Sternberg. Partway through, the interviewer began to pepper the Libertarian nominee over the “wasted vote” fallacy. The way in which Johnson responded may be his most devastating takedown of the campaign thus far—and followed by a broad, confident grin. USA Today: So some…
Johnson Has Raised More Money Than Ever By: Elias J. Atienza Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson raised more money in a single month than any other Libertarian candidate since at least 1996. Johnson raised $4.97 million in August, which outpaced his his July numbers. According to opensecrets.org, he has over $2.4 million cash on hand. In…
Johnson Leads Among Officers, Navy, and Air Force By: Elias J. Atienza Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson may not be making headway toward the 15 percent he needs to be in the presidential debates, but among active duty military, he is in a statistical dead-heat with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. A poll conducted by Military Times and…
by Rachel Stoltzfoos The Dallas Morning News is paying a steep price for endorsing Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, in the form of canceled subscriptions and loud protests. The endorsement broke a 75-year streak in the paper’s history of endorsing Republicans, and generated a lot of reader pushback in the form of angry comments and…
The More the Rhetoric Changes, the More the Positions Stay the Same by Brett Linley Every year, politicians tell us that the current election is the most important. They always say that we are at a crossroads. If we let their opponent win, it’s the end of America as we know it. In reality, the…
Krugman Ignores and Mischaracterizes Johnson’s Positions By: Elias J. Atienza Paul Krugman, the resident Keynesian at The New York Times, recently wrote an opinion editorial asking why millennials are not voting for Hillary Clinton. Krugman essentially laminates the old tired argument that a vote for a Gary Johnson is a vote for Donald Trump. Krugman fears that young…
by Ryan Pickrell Obamacare exchanges are imploding nationwide, and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton is pushing for a government-run public option as a solution to the failing healthcare system. It’s hard to imagine a situation in which Obamacare could get any worse: 16 healthcare co-ops have gone under, the Tennessee Health Commissioner is saying the state’s…
by Blake Neff Democratic House candidate Charlie Crist got an unexpected response at a debate Monday night when he tried to praise Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s honesty, only to have the crowd break out in laughter. Crist, formerly Florida’s Republican governor, switched parties in 2013 and is now trying to unseat Republican Rep. David Jolly in the state’s 13th…