The Fix: “Operation Chaos in Michigan? Again? The Michigan Democratic Party sent an e-mail to supporters Wednesday encouraging them to take part in the state’s Republican presidential primary on Tuesday.” … Continue reading
Category Archives: political parties
Jon Ralson (the person to read on Nevada politics) on what really happened in the GOP caucus: “Whatever you have heard, whatever you have read about the GOP caucus disaster, it was worse. I come to that conclusion after talking … Continue reading
The latest. … Continue reading
Politico reports. Truly the Keystone Kops Kaucuses. … Continue reading
Matthew Gagnon writes for the Bangor Daily News. Agreed. … Continue reading
The latest. More reason to Kill the Caucus. … Continue reading
Real Clear Politics reports. … Continue reading
In response to my “Kill the Caucuses! piece at Slate today, a reader sends along a link to Iowa caucuses blunder recalls close Gephardt-Simon ’88 contest. On the night of Feb. 8, 1988, Gephardt was reported to be the winner … Continue reading
Joshua Spivak explores. … Continue reading
My new Slate Jurisprudence column begins: In the last few weeks, the Keystone Kops have taken over the Republican presidential caucuses. First Mitt Romney was declared the winner of the Iowa caucuses by a scant eight votes, and then Republican … Continue reading
John Avlon has written this column for The Daily Beast/Newsweek. … Continue reading
The Fix reports. I’ll have a piece in Slate on the caucus process posting shortly. … Continue reading
News from Maine:“The Maine GOP announced Saturday that Romney narrowly edged Ron Paul, 39 percent to 36 percent, in a nonbinding presidential preference poll taken during the caucuses. The margin was fewer than 200 votes. A number of communities were … Continue reading
Politico reports. … Continue reading
Presidential nominating process: Current issues (Jan. 27) … Continue reading
The Washington Times reports. … Continue reading
Must-read Jon Ralston column on Nevada caucus follies. … Continue reading
NPR reports. … Continue reading
NYT: “LAS VEGAS — A special Saturday night Republican caucus here intended to accommodate Orthodox Jews who could not vote before sundown became the scene of controversy and confrontation after caucusgoers were told that to be admitted they had to … Continue reading
From the challengers: “Our Brief shows that California’s Top Two Primary Law violated the rights of Californians in two troubling ways. First, it unconstitutionally violated the rights of minor-party candidates, by forcing them to falsely state on the ballot that … Continue reading
Check it out. … Continue reading
The LA Times offers this report, with the subhead: “The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals panel’s decision may signal affirmation for California’s open primary system, in which the top two vote-getters advance to the general election regardless of party.” … Continue reading
On remand from the Supreme Court, and after the case went back to the trial court, the Ninth Circuit today, in a unanimous opinion, upheld Washington state’s top two primary law (on grounds that will make California’s top two law … Continue reading
Here. … Continue reading
Jerry Goldfeder has written this oped for the NY Daily News. … Continue reading
Interesting interview with The Fix. … Continue reading
Plausible analysis. … Continue reading
AP reports. … Continue reading
Jim Gardner has written this post on a new election law litigation project of his: I’d like to thank Rick for inviting me to blog about a redistricting legal challenge in which I’m involved. The case, Pearson v. Koster, is … Continue reading
Rob Richie and Elise Helgesen have written this Politico oped. … Continue reading
Political Wire: “Howard Megdal thinks a new GOP rule which says that any primary or caucus held before April 1 must allocate delegates proportionally could lead to a brokered convention.” … Continue reading
NYT editorializes. … Continue reading
BAN explains. … Continue reading
The State reports. … Continue reading
Richard Winger reports. … Continue reading
In Field v. Bowen, the court easily rejected the constitutional arguments against holding a top-two primary. The only difficult question, it seems to me, was the apparent contradiction in California statutes which seemed to both require that write-in vote lines … Continue reading
John Avlon has written this column for CNN. UPDATE: Richard Winger responds. … Continue reading
E. Frank Stephenson has written this article for Public Choice. Here is the abstract: Open primaries create the possibility of strategic crossover voting. On his March 3, 2008 program and subsequent broadcasts, radio personality Rush Limbaugh called on his listeners … Continue reading
Tim Herdt contrasts Republican-favored voter id laws with CA Democrats’ attempts to move ballot measure elections in the state to general elections only. … Continue reading
Yesterday, in my first post of this series on my forthcoming article The End of Campaign Finance Law, 98 Va. L. Rev. (2012), I argued that Citizens United’s importance rests less on its direct impact on corporate electioneering than on … Continue reading
When I mentioned “Parties Take the Initiative (and Vice Versa)” recently in this post, I realized that the article itself was not on SSRN. I have now posted it. … Continue reading
Mark Siegel has written this WaPo oped. … Continue reading
This is my congressional district (assuming the lines from the Commission stand) and this should be a lot of fun to observe. … Continue reading
AP reports. … Continue reading
Routledge has published this comparative volume, edited by Ewing, Rowbottom, and Tham. I have a chapter on the U.S. (though it was written for London conference before C.U.) Here is the description: This book explores the problems associated with regulating … Continue reading
The LA Times offers this front-page report. Back in 2000, I wrote this piece for the Columbia Law Review discussing the complex relationship of political parties to the initiative process, especially in California. More recently, Chris Elmendorf and Ethan Leib … Continue reading
That didn’t take long. … Continue reading
Could be. … Continue reading
Christopher Cadelgado has written this column for the San Diego Union-Tribune. … Continue reading
Richard Winger reports and links. … Continue reading