A FairVote Innovative Analysis
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Facts in the Spotlight
Gubernatorial general elections won without a majority between 1990 and 2006: 44
Currently serving governors elected at one time without a majority: 16
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Elections are like Scrabble. Winning requires strategy, a command of language and a sense of your opponent’s weaknesses, there are very often more [...]

The Journal News of Westchester, NY is one of many news organizations losing sleep over the juicy prospect of a Bloomberg independent presidential candidacy. Wisely, they got hold of FairVote’s chairman (and former independent presidential candidate) John Anderson to talk about the effect someone like Bloomberg could potentially have on the 2008 race.
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Rep. John Tanner of Tennessee hosted an unveiling on Capitol Hill of the Redistricting Game, a new online computer game that simulates the tug-of-war of political gerrymandering for congressional districts. Tanner is pushing the Fairness and Independence in Redistricting Act, a bill that will give the power to draw district lines to independent commissions instead [...]

Former Congressmen Birch Bayh and John Anderson are discussing the plan to implement a national popular vote for president now on the Diane Rehm Show.
Anderson and Bayh discuss the plan with John Fortier of the American Enterprise Institute and Jack Rakove, professor of political science and law at American University.
Congressman Anderson was an independent candidate [...]