Monthly Archives: November 2012
“Effect of ‘super PACs’ proved to be less than expected”
“Minnesota’s ‘NO’ Vote on Voter ID: What It Means”
Two from TPM on Running Elections
“For U.S. Chamber of Commerce, election was a money-loser”
“Corporate Politics, Governance, and Value Before and After Citizens United”
John Coates has written this article in The Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. Here is the abstract:
How did corporate politics, governance, and value relate to each other in the S&P 500 before and after Citizens United? In regulated and… Continue reading
“Rove Biggest Super-PAC Loser, Trump Says Waste of Money”
“Who Will Take the Reins of Senate Campaign Committees?”
“Washington’s State-of-the-Art Voting Information System”
“Voter ID Laws Renew ‘Right to Vote’ Appeal”
Josh Douglas oped in Politico.
“Libertarian acted as spoiler in Senate race, GOP says”
Billings Gazette: “U.S. Senate Libertarian candidate Dan Cox will tell you that it was never his intention to be a spoiler in one of the most closely watched races in the nation. He equally disliked both of his opponents’… Continue reading
My Appearance on Rachel Maddow Talking About Fixing Our Election System
You can now watch it here.
A number of viewers wrote to me to praise Washington/Oregon all vote-by-mail elections. I don’t think this is a good system for the entire country, for a number of reasons, beginning with a… Continue reading
Four Planes
Fascinating tidbit from the NYT inside report of the campaigns:
Even as the networks declared Mr. Obama the winner, Mr. Romney, who had earlier told reporters he had written only a victory speech, paused before the walk downstairs from his… Continue reading
“Home Florida, still counting votes, winds up not counting in 2012 presidential election”
Sun-Sentinel: “In the end, Florida didn’t actually matter at all. And that’s a good thing. Because even though President Obama got more than enough electoral votes to win reelection Tuesday, Florida is still officially up for grabs.”