Entries from 2012
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Swing States of America: Candidate Tracker and News, August 17
- Posted: August 17, 2012
- Author(s): Devin McCarthy
- Categories: Presidential Tracker, Home, Presidential Elections
Mitt Romney's choice of Paul Ryan could improve his chances in Ryan's home state of Wisconsin, but by how much? Will the overperforming economies of many swing states give President Obama victory in November?
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Swing States of America: Candidate Tracker and News, August 6
- Posted: August 6, 2012
- Author(s): Presidential Tracker, Devin McCarthy
- Categories: Presidential Tracker, Home, Presidential Elections, National Popular Vote
Nationwide polls remain close, but recent swing state polling suggests that President Barack Obama is beginning to pull away from Mitt Romney in the few states that will decide the 2012 presidential election. Obama attempts to further increase this lead with another week of swing state campaigning.
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Electing Lords: A Unique Opportunity for Electoral Reform in the British Upper House
- Posted: July 31, 2012
- Author(s): Devin McCarthy
- Categories: Home, Europe, Reforms, Fair Voting/Proportional Representation, Elections Worldwide
A lordship, by its very definition, has historically not been an elected office. But there is a strong movement in the British House of Commons to transform the upper house of the British parliament, the House of Lords, into a largely elected body based on proportional representation. This reform is long overdue.
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North Carolina’s Miniscule Runoff Turnout Undercuts Legitimacy
- Posted: July 24, 2012
- Author(s): Devin McCarthy
- Categories: Instant Runoff Voting, Home
A higher percentage of Americans believe in vampires than voted in North Carolina's July 17th primary runoff for nominations for Congress and key statewide offices. Unless North Carolina wants to risk a vampire or a similarly extreme candidate winning an election, it needs to change its runoff system. Instant runoff voting is the solution.
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Instant Runoff Voting in Action in Takoma Park
- Posted: July 18, 2012
- Author(s): Rob Richie, Jared Gay
- Categories: Home, Instant Runoff Voting, FairVote
Our analysis of the July 18 thinstant runoff election in Takoma Park, Maryland. We include information from an exit survey regarding opinions of instant runoff voting.
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Swing States of America: Candidate Tracker and News, July 10
- Posted: July 10, 2012
- Author(s): Jared Gay, Erin Ellis
- Categories: Presidential Tracker, Home
President Obama campaigns in swing state Iowa and Romney in swing state Colorado; mobilizing black female voters could be a tiebreaker for Obama; Missouri, now a red-leaning state, is becoming "irrelevant."
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Libya's 'Hybrid' Election Rules and Why They Are Less Than Ideal
- Posted: July 5, 2012
- Author(s): Arab Spring Series, Erin Ellis
- Categories: Home, Middle East and Africa, Elections Worldwide
On July 7, Libya will hold its first democratic elections since 1964. FairVote explains Libya's hybrid election system for the 200-seat General National Congress and how it could be better if all seats were elected by a form of proportional representation.
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The Current Electoral College is Like the World Series (Which is Why We Need to Change It)
- Posted: July 2, 2012
- Author(s): Devin McCarthy
- Categories: Home, Presidential Elections, National Popular Vote
If you've followed the debate over the Electoral College, you may have heard the argument that the College's structural similarity to baseball's World Series is a good argument for keeping its current winner-take-all rules. That argument is flawed.
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Mexico's Divisive Presidential Election System
- Posted: June 19, 2012
- Author(s): Warren Hays
- Categories: Home, Presidential Elections, Americas, Elections Worldwide
With Mexican voters set to go to the polls on July 1, the country's three-party system combined with its winner-take-all presidential elections create a recipe for popular discontent with no end in sight.
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Why James Madison Wanted to Change the Way We Vote For President
- Posted: June 18, 2012
- Author(s): Rob Richie, Devin McCarthy
- Categories: Home, Presidential Elections, National Popular Vote
James Madison helped to create the Electoral College, but he never supported the way we vote for our presidents today. Find out what Madison would change about our current electoral system.