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On a Wednesday evening in mid October, John Mangelli, independent candidate for United States Senator from New York, was speeding west in my rental car on I-90 toward Rochester, where his family was waiting in a Marriott hotel room.

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I sort of stopped scrolling and I think was able to feel what that woman was feeling — awkward for being on the losing team at a party full of losers, sad because she wasn’t winning, defeated because… she was getting defeated, helpless.

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Hank, described as a “refreshing candidate” on his campaign website, came in third in the Virginia senate race thanks to write-in votes.

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Your great uncle who’s been posting ten anti-Obama image macros a day on Facebook — rub his face in this: the repudiation of his entire worldview!

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When Obama was elected four years ago, Renée Krulich, a member of Seattle-based alt-weekly The Stranger staff, received an accidental text from a stranger.

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Use the self-checkout aisle of CVS in order to avoid the cashier who always for some reason sees you buying condoms and Twizzlers at the same time, before getting inside a monkey costume and freeballing it to the polls.

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That’s why I’ve decided to do something truly radical, a passionate gesture that will show the American people once and for all how serious I am about winning this thing.

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If politics really don’t matter, if the market makes all the decisions, than how about I treat my vote like I would the marketplace?