The “special relationship” between the United Kingdom and its former colony the United States can extend to the countries’ respective politics. British prime minister Margaret Thatcher achieved power just before Ronald Reagan was elected president with similar messaging, while in the 1990s Bill Clinton and Tony Blair both won with shared “third way” politics.
Institutionally, however, [...]

FairVote for a decade has issued a bi-annual report called Monopoly Politics in which we make projections in most U.S. House elections without any regards for what has happened since the prior election.
We’ve been careful to use the world “projections” rather than “predictions” because there’s one element we don’t try to predict: what the national [...]

Partisan polarization, resulting in underrepresentation of centrist views, seems like old news to me. So does declining support for the two major parties. When I first saw the headlines linked below, I wanted to say, “ho-hum”. I’m glad I didn’t.
Last week the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) released California’s Post-Partisan Future, an [...]

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Facts in the Spotlight

Number of California counties won by 5% or less in the 1992 presidential race: 19

Number in 2004: 3
Number of electoral votes in states in play in a nationally competitive presidential election in 1976: 345
Number in 2004: 159

In lecterns in New Hampshire, town hall meetings in Iowa, and television studios [...]