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The People's House?
- Posted: July 19, 2007
- Categories: Proportional Voting, FairVote, Innovative Analysis
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The 2006 midterms were, we are told, a great change election. Countless incumbents were swept from power and control shifted from one party to another in both houses of Congress. Well, at least one part of that sentence is true. While the Democrats did wind up in control, over 94% of incumbents were re-elected. The irony, of course, is that knocking off less than 6% of incumbents is considered remarkable. It sounds big compared to the less than 2% of incumbents who had lost in every election since 1996, but it still means that most incumbents had little to fear.
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E-Newsletter July 14, 2007
- Posted: July 14, 2007
- Categories: Instant Runoff Voting, FairVote Reformer E-Newsletters, National Popular Vote, Research & Analysis, D.C. Voting Rights, Choice Voting/Proportional Representation, Proportional Voting, FairVote, Fair Access to Participation, Democracy Innovations, Innovative Analysis
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Electoral College is #1 All-Time Constitutional Target
- Posted: July 12, 2007
- Categories: National Popular Vote, FairVote, Innovative Analysis
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The framers of the Constitution wisely ensured that the act of making changes to our nation’s founding document would be difficult, time consuming, and only possible with the assent of super-majorities of both Congress, and states. Certainly, to make such an attempt would mean that the issue at hand was of astounding importance.
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Why is My D Voting Like an R?
- Posted: July 5, 2007
- Categories: FairVote, Innovative Analysis
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Party label does not always determine how a member of Congress will vote on a controversial hot-button issue, but when the party line is breached there is usually a compelling reason. While there can be myriad reasons a legislator votes one way or another, there is a strong correlation between lawmakers who vote against the party line on a divisive issue and the partisanship of the state or district they represent. (State or district partisanship is determined, for our purposes, by the share of votes won by a party’s presidential nominee. A state like Alabama, for example, has a 61.6% Republican state partisanship because that is the percentage won by President Bush in 2004.)
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Electoral College Won't Keep Bloomberg Down
- Posted: June 28, 2007
- Categories: National Popular Vote, FairVote, Innovative Analysis
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Do you think the Electoral College might be Bloomberg’s biggest obstacle in a race for the White House? Think again.
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Rhode Island Youth Voter Advance Registration Waits for Governor's Signature
- Posted: June 27, 2007
- Categories: FairVote
Last week the Rhode Island state legislature overwhelmingly passed a bill sponsored by Rep. Edwin R. Pacheco (HR 6215) that allows 16 and 17-year-olds to pre-register to vote, making them automatically eligible once they turn 18. The bill was passed without much fanfare at the last minute before the legislative session ended, but pass it did, and now it is up to Governor Donald Carcieri to sign it into law.
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E-Newsletter May 22, 2007
- Posted: May 22, 2007
- Categories: FairVote Reformer E-Newsletters, National Popular Vote, Proportional Voting, Universal Voter Registration, FairVote, Fair Access to Participation
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E-Newsletter April 10, 2007
- Posted: April 10, 2007
- Categories: FairVote Reformer E-Newsletters, National Popular Vote, Proportional Voting, FairVote, Fair Access to Participation
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E-Newsletter April 2, 2007
- Posted: April 2, 2007
- Categories: FairVote Reformer E-Newsletters, National Popular Vote, FairVote
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E-Newsletter March 22, 2007
- Posted: March 22, 2007
- Categories: Instant Runoff Voting, FairVote Reformer E-Newsletters, National Popular Vote, D.C. Voting Rights, Proportional Voting, FairVote, Fair Access to Participation