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 [...]

Finally, the campaigns are over. Whoever will be the next President of the United States – he looks back on a long journey around the country and a huge amount of campaign events. There has been a tremendous effort to reach as many voters as possible by using the Internet, broadcast and print media, volunteer [...]

This year’s presidential election of course is hugely important. Indeed so was the last one in 2004, the one before it in 2000 and on back into our history.
But there’s a special way this election may be part of history: 2008 promises to be the very last election held under the current Electoral College system [...]

Election day is fast approaching. Presidential candidates should be competing for the support of voters in every state, since every vote counts equally. However, this is definitely not the case. A look at the campaigns of Sen. Barrack Obama and Sen. John McCain reveals that some votes are worth more to the candidates than are [...]