November 6th, 2008
Rob Richie
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, [...]
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November 5th, 2008
Rob Richie
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 [...]
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November 5th, 2008
Rob Richie
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 [...]
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November 5th, 2008
Rob Richie
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 [...]
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