“Democrat Ekes Out Senate Win”
18 vote victory out of 126,000 votes cast in NY Senate race.
Category Archives: campaigns
“Well-Trod Path: Political Donor to Ambassador”
“NRCC Targets Foreshadow Power of Partisanship in 2014 Elections”
FairVote: “A memo from the National Republican Congressional Committee obtained by the National Journal Wednesday identifies seven Democratic Members of Congress as the primary targets for an expanded Republican majority in 2014: Mike McIntyre, Jim Matheson, Nick Rahall, John… Continue reading
“Appeals court rules on news media access to polling places”
Post-Gazette: “Media organizations in Pennsylvania don’t have the right to report from, or take photos and video within, polling places, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled yesterday. The 53-page opinion by three judges comes in response to… Continue reading
“Ex-IRS Director on Dark-Money Groups: ‘Investigate Them and Prosecute Them'”
“Former Obama Staff Complain Of Cold Inaugural Shoulder”
Buzzfeed: “In a sour footnote to President Barack Obama’s sweeping electoral victory last November, many of his campaign staffers have been shut out of the inaugural festivities, more than a dozen of them complained to BuzzFeed Monday.’We worked our… Continue reading
“How Did People Vote and Who Did They Vote For?”
Michael McDonald: “You know who won the 2012 presidential election. What you may not know is which candidate did best among the different ways that people vote.”
“Discouraging Election Contests”
Josh Douglas has posted this draft on SSRN (University of Richmond Law Review). Here is the abstract:
This brief article offers a few proposals for discouraging losing candidates from contesting the certified result of an election. Our system encourages –… Continue reading
“How Romney Could Have Won”
National Review: “If votes in every state were awarded by congressional district, President-elect Romney would be planning his inauguration right now.”
That strikes me as overly simplistic: if voting took place on a district by district basis, the campaigns… Continue reading
“Inouye gave preference for successor before he died”
“How Maps Helped Republicans Keep an Edge in the House”
“Michigan Effort Shows G.O.P. Sway in State Contests”
“Scott’s departure for Senate will trigger third special House election in 2013”
“A More Perfect Union: How President Obama’s campaign used big data to rally individual voters, part 1”
Sasha Issenberg has written this article for the MIT Technology Review.