So far, Donald Trump has continued to be a real pain for political science. He didn't lose interest or get winnowed out of the race. His inflammatory remarks — tweets about Ted Cruz's wife, controversial comments about abortion — haven't ended his campaign.Source: What do parties do? Donald Trump's candidacy is a good test case....
The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously rejected an effort to change political boundaries and reduce the voting strength of the nation's Latino population on Monday.Source: SCOTUS Unanimously Rejects Challenge to 'One Person, One Vote'...
Charles Koch is confident House Speaker Paul Ryan could emerge from the Republican National Convention as the party’s nominee if Donald Trump comes up at least 100 delegates shy, he has told friends privately.Source: Charles Koch Is Privately Committed To Getting Paul Ryan Nominated In Cleveland: Source...
The Court’s decision in Evenwel could not have been clearer, and indeed it was unanimous, that the Constitution does not command the exclusion of nonvoters from the base used for state and local legislative redistricting. It was a full defeat of the appellants.Source: "Fully Open" After Evenwel -...
RNC Launches ConventionFacts.gop | GOPRNC COO (and attorney) Sean Cairncross does an excellent job of explaining how an "open" convention would work. Today the Republican National Committee (RNC) launched ConventionFacts.gop, a new site that provides an easy way to learn about the 2016 Republican National Convention. Since 1856, Republican delegates from across the country have gathered to adopt a platform, determine...
The California Secretary of State’s web page now has a list of candidates for the June 7, 2016 primary. Here is the link to the list for U.S. Senate. The ballot will list 35 candidates. Thanks to Jim Riley for the news.Here is link to the full list of candidates for Congress and legislature.Source: California June 2016 Primary Ballot Will...
The first page in any handbook for creating a government regulatory commission would lay out something fairly obvious: There has to be an odd number of members.Source: The Federal Election Commission is worse than useless...
A nonprofit with ties to Senator John McCain received a $1 million donation from the government of Saudi Arabia in 2014, according to documents filed with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.Source: McCain-Linked Nonprofit Received $1 Million From Saudi Arabia...
“Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr.Source: The strange power of Donald Trump’s speech patterns...
The prospect of two Democrats – Attorney General Kamala Harris and Rep. Loretta Sanchez – advancing to the November election continues to look likely, with two surveys this month supporting the trend that surfaced when polling began last year.Source: U.S. Senate primary likely just a warmup...
