As Paul Krugman reports in the September 21 issue of the New York Times, Mitt Romney seems to have a very different interpretation of
Category: Voting/Elections
Dear 20-something: Think about the issues, then vote!
How important is it that young people go to the polls and vote? If you’re an Obama supporter as I am it’s crucial. Look
I ran against Todd Akin in 2010
It was 10 am on March 31, 2010, the filing deadline in Missouri to run for Congress. My wife and I kept looking at
Facebook + Peer Pressure = Voting
Researchers are using Facebook. Not just for posting pictures and playing Farmville though. They’re using the social networking giant for social experiments. And in
Dragging voter registration kicking/screaming into the 21st century
While Republican Secretaries of State in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida desperately try to limit access to voting by aggressively purging registration rolls, forward-looking voters’
Culture wars: Doing it 1990s-style
Do you remember Pat Buchanan, the one-time Republican candidate who challenged incumbent President George H.W. Bush for the presidency in 1992? As Adam Nagourney
Google searches on “register to vote” go crazy after Obama speech
Proving that President Obama is still a trend starter, after his speech at the Democratic National Convention, online searches for registering to vote doubled
Karl Rove’s secret kingdom of power
Drawing in the cantankerous Koch brothers and Sheldon Adelson, Rove had even consolidated the money under his power. He has co-opted the Tea Party,
Big business is taking over state Supreme Courts
A new report from the Center for American Progress shows how the soaring cost of judicial elections led to state supreme court decisions that
Money, voter inequality, and the Electoral College
Imagine the United States without California, New York, and Texas. These three states represent close to one-fourth of the population of the country. Yet