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Category: Voting/Elections
Extreme gerrymandering: Coming to a state near you?
Americans woke up on November 7 having elected a Democratic president, expanded the Democratic majority in the Senate, and preserved the Republican majority in
What if electoral votes were awarded proportionally?
The record shows that President Barack Obama was reelected in 2012 by defeating Mitt Romney with 332 electoral votes to 206. Even though Obama
Romney’s Project ORCA: Technology fails, shoe leather wins
When my friend who worked in the Obama campaign’s analytics department told me about Project ORCA, I thought he was talking about an environmental
2012 election cost a monstrous $6 billion
Gaius Publius writing at Americablog comments on a recent New York Times article on this election cycle’s monstrous cost. I suggest reading the NYT article then
“Barracuda business class” vs. democracy
It’s November 5, the day before the 2012 presidential election. If polling guru Nate Silver is right, President Obama will win his second term.
The right is succeeding in moving the goalposts on abortion
So much about the “Todd Akin affair” has focused on the Missouri congressman’s unfathomable and demeaning attitude towards women as well as his faulty
A rural-Missouri progressive reflects on 2012 voters & victories
Like you, I’m still digesting the 2012 election results and trying to make sense of what happened. I worked at a polling station out
Civics class at the polling place: Basic stuff that some voters don’t know
As an official poll worker on November 6, my job was to help people vote. We looked at IDs, confirmed voters’ addresses, handed out
Wackiest ballot measures of 2012
Who says voting can’t be entertaining? Here are some of the more unusual ballot measures that will be slowing up the already long-enough lines