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 [...]

The Delaware House of Representatives today handily passed the National Popular Vote plan by 23-12 with both Democratic and Republican legislators joining to establish elections where every vote is equal and the candidate with the most votes wins.
Of our nation’s 99 state legislative chambers, 29 have passed the NPV plan in 18 states. It is [...]

The Washington Post today has a telling front page news story: Obama’s travel mixes policy, politics: States with close electoral results getting most of his visits. The article is a stomach-churning revelation about why our current Electoral College system is such a disaster for upholding the principle of political equality — and disturbing for showing [...]

The San Francisco Bay Guardian’s long-time editor Tim Redmond had an important scoop this week: the downtown business community is contemplating an assault on San Francisco’s instant runoff voting (IRV) system. At a June 18th strategy meeting, the CEO of the Chamber of Commerce and several other downtown leaders talked about a potential campaign to [...]