FairVote’s analysis team has come up with ten surprising stories about Election ’08. Enjoy!
1.    Electoral Reform on the Ballot – New Victories and Implementations for Instant Runoff Voting:  This November’s ballot measures showed that Americans are ready to transform our politics. Landslide majorities voted for spoiler-free, majority elections through instant runoff voting (IRV) in Memphis, [...]

Cross-posted at Rhode Island’s Future.
One objection that’s sometimes raised about youth voter pre-registration in Rhode Island’s General Assembly is that young voters are apathetic, and they won’t take advantage of pre-registration even if we implement it.
Since pre-registration would cost next to nothing, I’ve never understood what the point of this argument is. Especially since the [...]

In stark contrast to the elections of 2000 and 2004, President-elect Barack Obama won yesterday’s election with no questions asked. He took 364 electoral votes (assuming North Carolina settles in his favor), 94 votes more than he needed to reach the magic threshold of 270 electoral votes, and he carried a comfortable majority of the [...]

Showing that there really is something to our method of measuring state partisanship and the connections between past results and this year’s results, my projection of Barack Obama winning 52.5% of the national popular vote made last night before 11 pm eastern time at a time while most states only had preliminary results is looking [...]