The late great California Supreme Court justice Otto Kaus is perhaps best remembered nationally for a statement he made about judicial elections and the in terrorem effect of judges having to stand for reelection (even retention elections): “”You cannot forget… Continue reading

Al Kamen says “maybe.”

Jay Weiner explains Recount 2.0 in Minnesota.

See here. In contrast, as I noted last night, the measure to get rid of Florida’s public financing plan failed to attain the 60% necessary as a constitutional amendment.

U.S. Senate, Washington State: Murray leading, likely to win with margin that would avoid recount. U.S. Senate, Colorado: Bennet ahead by about 7,000 votes with 87% of vote counted; automatic recount triggered if margin about 3,900 votes or… Continue reading

[Justin Levitt here, guest posting — with thanks to Rick, as always.] As the red-eye flights of recount lawyers touch down Wednesday morning, attention will inevitably flow to the federal races still in overtime. But there is a bloody redistricting… Continue reading

The latest from Iowa.

How did Independents and third party candidates do, did their presence affect any D-R races, and what of “none of the above” in Nevada? What we know now is that independent Chafee won the R.I. gubernatorial race, Tancredo lost in… Continue reading

See here. In Nevada, the measure to move to merit selection is way behind.

Read this.

So reports Marc Ambinder. The Des Moines Register website seems down, probably overrun with requests to its servers.

The Las Vegas Sun reports.

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