The Cincinnati Post reports that Harris Weston has died at age 91.
Harris was a wonderful friend to FairVote — in 1992 he spoke at our founding conference in the offices of the Charter Committee that was traditionally the foundation of support for the choice voting form of proportional voting and was a key ally in [...]

The American public at large is becoming increasingly sophisticated in its understanding of the Electoral College, especially with the debut of websites like FiveThirtyEight.com. The winner-take-all Electoral College system, we’ve come to realize, is responsible for much of the slice-and-dice demographic targeting used in modern presidential campaign. During the campaign season we are spoken to [...]

Sarah Palin’s surprise announcement today that she will step down this month as Alaska’s governor has stirred a firestorm of conjecture about her motives and political prospects.
There is one particularly concrete consequence, however: she will be the third woman governor to leave office since the November elections in the wake of President Obama tapping two [...]

In case you missed it (I certainly did), White House press secretary Robert Gibbs on Monday unexpectedly reiterated the president’s position on an issue close to our hearts. From the briefing transcript:
Q:    Can I ask you one more question, just quickly, on sort of a D.C. issue?  And that is, why hasn’t the President [...]