Just how should districts’ voting power be allocated such that each individual voter has the same power? A fair allocation would be proportional to the square root of districts’ populations, rather than directly proportional to the populations, accor
A Democratic state legislator from east Arkansas, his father and two campaign workers pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiracy to commit election fraud after federal prosecutors said the lawmaker's campaign bribed absentee voters and destroyed ballots
Each of those three groups - likely Obama voters, people who get federal benefits and people who don't pay federal income taxes - contains just under half of all Americans, in the neighborhood of 47 percent at a given moment.
It's no surprise: we've heard this time and again, but now the pressure is really on for Romney supporters to rail in as many voters as they can to increase the chance of a Republican win.
One of the most striking characteristics of the 2012 election is the role that a small number of relatively unknown megadonors, via new Super PAC groups, are playing in determining the outcome of the presidential, Senate, and House races.
Libertarian Senate Candidate Marc J. Victor criticized Representative Jeff Flake, for his yes vote on H.R. 5949 the FISA Amendments Act Reauthorization Act of 2012
Tuesday’s attacks by alleged radical Islamists on key U.S. diplomatic posts in Libya and Egypt propelled foreign policy, however briefly, to the center of the presidential race that has been dominated to date by the state of the economy.
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Amsterdam’s pot smokers cast a keen, if somewhat hazy eye on Wednesday’s election, hoping for a government that will reverse plans to register them in a database and ban sales to foreigners.
A Two Party System; really. One is lying as much as the other, and we know the two political parties I’m writing about, yet the typical voter in this country continues to attempt to vote for the lesser of two evils. Even people who are ed
Fred and Sam decided to buy the White House. They didn’t want to go to all the trouble of starting new political parties, so they went out and bought a couple. They kept all the same names, slogans, logos and literature so that very few voters were
President Obama has pulled to a six-point lead over Mitt Romney in a new CNN poll taken in the aftermath of the party conventions, reflecting the Democratic National Convention bump that's being seen across numerous polls.
The estimated cost of establishing functioning IVAOs at all overseas military bases not in combat zones is estimated at between $15 million and $20 million a year. We wasted $530 million on Solyndra but can't afford a relative pittance to ensure our
Either Barak Obama will continue as America's president or he will be unseated and Mitt Romney will replace him. There may be better qualified people running - someone who could inspire and lead us all into a second century of American ascendance; h
A Democratic state legislator from east Arkansas, his father and two campaign workers pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiracy to commit election fraud after federal prosecutors said the lawmaker's campaign bribed absentee voters and destroyed ballots
The fall of the House of Morgan has begun as stock prices on the global market at Morgan Stanley (MS) begin to fall on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).