Elections are about choices. For many California voters, these choices are put in stark partisan terms: casting ballots strictly for all Democrats or all Republicans. But the state’s new open primary gave us a new twist.Source: CA120: When open primary voters tune out...
Justice Scalia and Campaign Finance: A Puzzle -In voting as a member of the Roberts majority on campaign finance, Justice Scalia could be a reliable member of the “conservative bloc”, but also have his own reasons—just as Justices Kagan and Ginsburg may vote with Justice Breyer on campaign finance without sharing his theory of “Active Liberty.” Scalia accepted a role...
So here’s the case for Trump’s standing (as I alluded to in an earlier post): competitive standing. Here’s a 2008 federal district court case, Hollander v. McCain, involving a voter challenge to McCain’s eligibility to run for president: To be sure, courts have held that a candidate or his political party has standing to challenge the inclusion of an allegedly...
On Sunday, the day after Antonin Scalia's death threw the political world another curveball, Fix Boss Chris Cillizza wrote that the Supreme Court vacancy would be a good thing for one man: Ted Cruz.Source: Counterpoint: How a Supreme Court vacancy could weaken both Cruz and Trump...
Conventional wisdom dictates that the presidential race is typically won by the candidate best able to appeal to the collective better angels of the American public, the person who can make us believe that hope and change, for example, is actually possible.Source: 2016: The ‘race to the bottom’ election...
On Monday, Donald Trump held a rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, where he merrily repeated a woman in the crowd who called Ted Cruz a pussy. Twenty-four hours later, Donald Trump won the New Hampshire primary in a landslide.Source: The rise of Donald Trump is a terrifying moment in American politics...
For months, the specter of a contested Republican convention has lingered over the crowded race for the nomination.Source: Reid: Contested Democratic convention 'would be kind of fun'...
Don’t be fooled by what might sound, at times, like complaining about a “crazy,” “scary,” “topsy-turvy” presidential campaign taking place in a “parallel universe.” Journalists are in media nirvana.Source: A brokered convention? A third-party candidate? Welcome to the media’s nirvana....
In the run-up to their big presidential campaign moments, the big media players in Iowa and New Hampshire gave voters a useful online feature, an interactive calendar that let them track where candidates were appearing in person. Down in South Carolina, it’s different.Source: Warning: The dirty tricks are about to start...
About every two weeks last summer, former Navajo National Councilman Daniel Tso took his white Nissan truck on a tour of oil wells and fracking sites in northwest New Mexico. What he saw there concerned him.Source: Amid federal gridlock, lobbying rises in the states...
