Latest on Arizona’s pseudo-audit
Newsweek reports on internal divisions among participants, apparently because preliminary figures tracked officially certified results (thus confirming Biden’s victory).
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Could you withstand the pressure?
Two articles, one in The Atlantic and the other in The New York Times, discuss how first-term Representative Nancy Mace–a Republican from South Carolina–initially condemned Trump for causing the January 6 insurrection, only to backtrack since then.… Continue reading
The Big Lie and January 6
The Washington Post has an overview of where things currently stand with the House’s select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection. The Post says this committee’s investigation is supposed to be the “ultimate arbiter” of what happened that day. Maybe,… Continue reading
State-Districts Competitiveness Gap
Axios has a report on a data project that Election Law at Ohio State (ELOSU) is pursuing. The idea is to compare how competitive the House districts in a state are as a group versus the competitiveness of the state… Continue reading
Electoral McCarthyism on display
Politico reports on Trump’s Arizona rally. The 1950s Red Scare lasted as long as it did, from my understanding of the history, because the public was willing to be duped by the mendacity of Joe McCarthy and there wasn’t sufficient… Continue reading
“Accelerating Election Science”
Election Updates has the details of this important new report.
House hearing on election subversion
Scheduled for July 28, noon ET.
Trump’s efforts to “primary” Cheney
Politico goes deep into the details of former president Trump’s concerted plans to oust Rep. Liz Cheney as revenge for her commitment to honest vote-counting. Particularly interesting are the efforts to change the rules to make it more difficult for… Continue reading
The latest on battle for electoral reform
NY Times reports on the divide among Democrats. I continue to believe that the short-term strategy should be a stand-alone bill focused solely on combatting partisan gerrymandering, to test the possibility of getting 60 votes in the Senate. If there… Continue reading
A positive bipartisan development
Paul Kane of The Washington Post tweets about a new bill, jointly sponsored by Rep. Rodney Davis and Rep. Abigail Spanberger, to deal with the problem of a presidential candidate dying during critical time periods in the Electoral College process.… Continue reading
We are not in Walter Cronkite’s world
CBS News has a new poll showing that 73% of the voters who (mistakenly) believe there was “widespread fraud” in the 2020 election say they heard this from “reports on the news”; by contrast, only 49% say they heard this… Continue reading
Pew survey: views on voting
What jumped out most to me on a first quick look at these numbers was the racial divide on whether voting is a “fundamental right” or instead a “privilege”. Blacks split 77-21 in favor of “fundamental right.” Asians and Hispanics… Continue reading
A tell from Trump’s money?
This Washington Post story, on Trump’s PAC not spending for the pseudo-audits of the 2020 election, suggests instead that he’s saving the funds for a 2024 run, or perhaps to dole out in the midterms. The most interesting nugget,… Continue reading
House Hardball, part 2
Nick Stephanopoulos makes some fair points in response to my post on whether, in the absence of a new Act of Congress, the House can or should refuse to seat winning candidates solely on the ground that their districts were… Continue reading