FairVote’s analysis team has come up with ten surprising stories about Election ’08. Enjoy!
1.    Electoral Reform on the Ballot – New Victories and Implementations for Instant Runoff Voting:  This November’s ballot measures showed that Americans are ready to transform our politics. Landslide majorities voted for spoiler-free, majority elections through instant runoff voting (IRV) in Memphis, [...]

Showing that there really is something to our method of measuring state partisanship and the connections between past results and this year’s results, my projection of Barack Obama winning 52.5% of the national popular vote made last night before 11 pm eastern time at a time while most states only had preliminary results is looking [...]

Professor Michael McDonald at George Mason University this morning reported that his preliminary estimate was that voter turnout in yesterday’s election was 64.1%, of eligible voters (not registered voters or voting age population alone), topping the 1960 voter turnout rate of 63.8%. If his estimate holds up, this will mark the highest voter turnout since [...]

Here at FairVote we were particularly focused yesterday on measures for instant runoff voting in Memphis, Tennessee (see www.yesonfive.org), which won a a sweeping win 70% of the vote, and the choice voting form of proportional representation in Cincinnati, Ohio (see www.8isgreat.org), which suffered a narrow defeat, 53.5% to 46.5%, after opponents poured in close [...]