“Another Senate dispute puts spending bills in jeopardy”
Parliamentary maneuverings and election year politics.
Category Archives: political parties
“‘Hall: McDaniel, Cochran primary law fight disingenuous”
Sam Hall column: “Mississippi has a law that says a person cannot vote in a party primary unless they intend to support that party’s nominee in the general election. The law is all but unenforceable and is contradicted by other… Continue reading
“Mississippi’s Black Voters Should Vote for Thad Cochran”
Jamelle Bouie makes the case.
“Top-Two Supporters File Brief in Rubin v Bowen, the Minor Party Challenge to California’s Top-Two System”
J. Christian Adams Wrongly Suggests Poll Workers Should Exclude Democrats from Voting in Mississippi Primary, Ignoring Relevant Case Law and an AG Opinion
Via Josh Marshall, comes a story at Breitbart, Former DOJ Attorney: Illegal for Democrats to Vote in MS GOP Primary Runoff. Here’s the relevant part of the article:
J. Christian Adams, a former Civil Rights Division attorney at… Continue reading
“Setting the Record Straight on a Polarizing Debate”
WaPo Editorial Suggests MultiMember Districts to Deal with Political Polarization
“Population Shifts Turning All Politics National”
“Asymmetrical Polarization Undermined? Thoughts on the New Pew Research Center’s Report on Political Polarization”
Tom Mann blogs at Brookings’ FixGov blog.
“The Fix: Americans are twice as polarized as they were in 1994 on 8 out of 10 issues”
“An expert on congressional primaries weighs in on Cantor’s loss”
Robert Boatwright talks to the Monkey Cage.
Judicial Candidates Have No Constitutional Right for Party Label on Ballot
“Political Polarization in the American Public; How Increasing Ideological Uniformity and Partisan Antipathy Affect Politics, Compromise and Everyday Life”
Very important Pew report, with some very revealing graphics and statistics.