But What of the Rick Parry (with an “A”) Voters?
Iowa governor wants to kill the Ames straw poll.
Category Archives: political parties
“California’s Post-Partisan Experiment”
Bloomberg View: “Uprooting intense partisanship in Washington would be easier if fewer legislators represented safe, ideologically homogenous districts. Or so reformers have long maintained. Now, with the final results in from legislative races in California, that thesis will get… Continue reading
“Supermajority elected to statehouses”
AP:
There’s a new superpower growing in the Great Plains and the South, where bulging Republican majorities in state capitols could dramatically cut taxes and change public education with barely a whimper of resistance from Democrats.
Contrast that with California,… Continue reading
“Calif. election law creates competition, less predictability”
PPIC Assesses California Election Reforms in Light of Tuesday’s Results
“A status quo election? A counterpoint”
The Fix: “Richard L. Hasen over at the Election Law Blog offers a worthwhile counterpoint to our argument in Morning Fix that the government may stay largely as-is after the 2012 election….We generally agree with Hasen’s point that… Continue reading
“New Report Analyzes the Effect of Top Two in Washington State”
“Dem convention used corporate cash, despite pledge”
Second Thoughts on Top Two Primary
Yesterday at the excellent Politics in the Extreme conference at Cal State Channel Islands, there was a great panel on the top two primary featuring a paper by Seth Masket (draft here) and comments by Timm Herdt and… Continue reading
“How redistricting leads to a more partisan Congress — in two charts”
The Fix — with pics!
“Romney Fundraising Plan Comes with Risks”
Politico: “Mitt Romney’s most potent fundraising committee is paying to outsource a big part of its final campaign push to an unusual coalition of party committees. Romney Victory, the joint fundraising committee that has raised the lion’s share of… Continue reading
“Scott Brown touts Senate vote analysis to bolster bipartisan credentials”
Boston Globe: “Senator Scott Brown has a new piece of evidence to bolster his argument that he is more than willing to cross party lines in the Senate. Brown, a Republican who is locked in a tough reelection battle… Continue reading
“‘Top-2’ primary is like candy — offers quick satisfaction but ultimately rots teeth”
See this oped from some LWV folks.
“Weighing the Effects of an Exit of Centrists”
NYT: “A potent combination of Congressional redistricting, retirements of fed-up lawmakers and campaign spending by special interests is pushing out moderate members of both parties, leaving a shrinking corps of consensus builders.”
I discussed how political polarization in Congress… Continue reading