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Insight New Mexico - Debra Haaland

24. July 2014

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By V.B. Price

V.B. Price talks with Debra Haaland, Democratic candidate for Lt. Governor.

Parties and partisanship

24. July 2014

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By E.E. Tyson

We have elections that are mostly controlled by two major parties and the partisans of each who function to organize policy arguments in our representative democracy.

This process has its critics. Complaints surface here and there in the New Mexico commentariat. Ideas for improvement – suggestions like open primaries – are championed.

But some of the arguments around the issues of voting and parties and elections and partisanship need to be chopped down or trimmed back before we can get on with a more reasoned discussion of any changes...