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2014 elections

Don’t Rule Moderates Out

Don’t Rule Moderates Out

By Samuel G. Howard on November 15, 2012

In a year where there were only four candidates across the state marked as belonging to the Moderate Party on the ballot (most people never saw them and the fifth and sole successful Moderate Party candidate ran in a nonpartisan race), 9249 voters used the so-called “master lever” to vote for the Moderate Party. With [...]

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