Gibbs: Obama is “committed” to DC Voting Rights

July 2nd, 2009
Paul Fidalgo

In case you missed it (I certainly did), White House press secretary Robert Gibbs on Monday unexpectedly reiterated the president’s position on an issue close to our hearts. From the briefing transcript:
Q:    Can I ask you one more question, just quickly, on sort of a D.C. issue?  And that is, why hasn’t the President [...]

Youth turnout up, decisive

November 6th, 2008
Matt Sledge

Cross-posted at Rhode Island’s Future.
One objection that’s sometimes raised about youth voter pre-registration in Rhode Island’s General Assembly is that young voters are apathetic, and they won’t take advantage of pre-registration even if we implement it.
Since pre-registration would cost next to nothing, I’ve never understood what the point of this argument is. Especially since the [...]

Now, where did that vote of mine go?? (spoken by 400,000 Americans)

February 7th, 2008
Ross Margulies

Watching the results come in on the night of February 5th in your living room, you may have noticed that not everything added up to 100% (double entendre intended.)
Take Oklahoma, for example:
Source:CNN
Now, what is Edwards doing in there? Didn’t he suspend his campaign? Are thousands of voters running some massive [...]