independent candidates
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Combat veteran, author Matt Cavanaugh launches independent challenge to Jeff Crank in Colorado’s 5th CD
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Army combat veteran and author Matt Cavanaugh on Tuesday launched an independent bid to challenge first-term Republican U.S. Rep. Jeff Crank in Colorado’s 5th Congressional District, predicting that its voters are hungry for an alternative to what he termed the “broken two-party system.” “I’m as unhappy with this same old, broken Washington as everybody else…
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TRAIL MIX | Hoping to build a powerful coalition from the center out
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Americans have never been as sharply or deeply divided along partisan lines, research shows, but at the same time the ranks of the unaffiliated – voters who don’t feel at home in either major party – are growing at a record pace. Just glance at a screen, and the results of the most recent round…
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Independents uneasy about taking cash, even from Denver-based indie group
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AUGUSTA, Maine – Hoping to capitalize on voter frustration over growing polarization in politics, a group fueled partly by what critics call “dark money” plans to spend $3 million this year to support and elect independents. But some free-spirited lawmakers are declining their help. Unite America, formerly known as the Centrist Project, is endorsing and…
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TRAIL MIX: Independents flex their money muscles
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The organization that rolled into Colorado last year with the goal of electing some unaffiliated candidates to the legislature had some big news recently. Unite Colorado, the state-level arm of Unite America – perhaps better known by its old name, the Centrist Project – proudly announced that the five independent House and Senate candidates it’s…
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Centrist Project hopes to break statehouse gridlock by electing independent candidates
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Despite the fact that more Colorado voters are unaffiliated than belong to any one political party, the state has never elected an independent candidate to the Legislature – a 140-year streak a young organization called the Centrist Project aims to break in next year’s election. “Independents are a force to be reckoned with, but they’re…
