Believe it or not, the Republican and Democratic Parties are preparing to work together to come up with a bipartisan solution to a mutually recognized problem. No, it’s not on climate change, nor is it on economic recovery. It’s not even on how to name a post office. This exciting bit of comity is being [...]

Following what should have been a well-attended gubernatorial primary in New Jersey this week (but most certainly was not), new polling shows that Creigh Deeds is defying expectations in Virginia’s Democratic gubernatorial primary contest. Essentially, there is a three-way tie among Deeds, former DNC chair Terry McAuliffe and last year’s presumed frontrunner Brian Moran.
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The next presidential election year is 2012, so we ought to have a full four years to recover from this past primary season extravaganza, right? Well, unless we do something now about our presidential nomination process, we will likely see campaigns firing up in early 2011, and we’ll start heading to our polls and caucus [...]

U.S. Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) has put forward an an ambitious reform agenda that includes several national FairVote priorities, including establishing a national popular vote for president, advance voter registration for teenagers before they reaching voting age and reform of the presidential primary process. His office summarizes his “one person, one vote initiative” in a [...]