August 1st, 2008
Laura Kirshner
The next presidential election year is 2012, so we ought to have a full four years to recover from this past primary season extravaganza, right? Well, unless we do something now about our presidential nomination process, we will likely see campaigns firing up in early 2011, and we’ll start heading to our polls and caucus [...]
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June 10th, 2008
Rob Richie
U.S. Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) has put forward an an ambitious reform agenda that includes several national FairVote priorities, including establishing a national popular vote for president, advance voter registration for teenagers before they reaching voting age and reform of the presidential primary process. His office summarizes his “one person, one vote initiative” in a [...]
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May 27th, 2008
Rob Richie
Last week I taped a short radio segment with CounterSpin, produced for national distribution by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. My subject was how many journalists have over-hyped recent Democratic primary results, not recognizing how predictable they largely have been in a race whose basic outlines were established by February 6th
During the broadcast, I commented [...]
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May 14th, 2008
David
With all eyes now shifting to this November’s presidential election, Barack Obama and John McCain continued their song and dance about civil campaigning with hints of a coming series of joint campaign events. Bloomberg News reported:
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said he’d be willing to campaign jointly with Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, [...]
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