The Internet and Voting: Worth Doing Right
We should focus on improving our elections using innovations that build upon mature and well-understood technologies.
We should focus on improving our elections using innovations that build upon mature and well-understood technologies.
The National Journal | Posted 06.22.2009 | Politics
Founded in the decade before the Civil War as the Northern voice of union, the Republican Party today is more electorally dependent on the South than ...
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 02.09.2009 | Home
Latinos certainly deserve their fair share of Obama appointments and cabinet posts, but that's far different than turning the quest for Obama appointments into a numbers game, a quota game.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.09.2009 | Media
Today, Congress plans to officially certify the results of the 2008 election, meeting in a 1 P.M. joint session to get down to counting up the elector...
AP | Posted 12.20.2008 | Politics
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Republican John McCain has defeated President-elect Barack Obama in Missouri _ the last state to be decided in the 2008 pr...
Michael Russnow | Posted 12.17.2008 | Media
Amazingly, with all the frenetic emotion of the 2000 election nothing was done -- to abolish our outmoded and increasingly stupid Electoral College.
Joshuah Bearman | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics
The Civil War might be over, but the War Between the States lives on. The good news is that the lingering resentments of that time might have finally lost their political power.
Jerome Karabel | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama's victory could well be the third realigning election in the past century -- one that will be seen by historians as the beginning of an emerging Democratic majority.
Greg Saunders | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama is under no obligation to govern like a centrist or temper his policy goals to accommodate a point-of-view that the American people have decisively rejected. Obama won. Elections have consequences.
Laurel Kaufer | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
As we have heard from the analysts on both sides for much of the last month, this year we saw "the perfect storm" hit the Republican party in almost every conceivable way.
Rupert Russell | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
It is time to throw out the old playbook for one simple reason. It was wrong. Obama wasn't your average Democratic candidate, but then again, America isn't your average country, either.
Beth Arnold | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
The truth is -- and some Americans don't understand this -- the French also wanted the best for us.
Jeff Chang | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
Throughout the north side of Pittsburgh, one of the city's three major Black districts, they lined up before dawn, hundreds deep in the 47-degree weather as if they were waiting for history to be made.
Steven Weber | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
As Obama has campaigned, so shall he govern. And as he won, so have we won. We must preserve, protect and defend the nation we have won back.
David A. Andelman | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
The all but unanimous conclusion from my time taking calls from folks on Radio France was a simple one: "Barack Obama is 'le rock star.'"
Paul Finkelman | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
In the end Obama is not America`s first black president -- he is America`s first president who happens to be black. The difference is huge.
Sheryl Crow | Posted 12.05.2008 | Entertainment
We are now finally waking up and realizing the damage that was done while we were in a asleep at the wheel. As evident in this election time, we are now a nation impassioned with possibility.
Andy Borowitz | Posted 11.05.2008 | Politics
For Democrats, who have become accustomed to their party blowing an election even when it seemed like a sure thing, Tuesday night's results were a bitter pill to swallow.
Chris Durang | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
You know what, I'm shell shocked. I can't feel glad yet, that's a quirk of mine, it's hard for me to celebrate.
Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
Obama ran a campaign that began with a speech that proclaimed, "We aren't Red States. We aren't Blue States. We are the United States." And that is how he won. That is the politics of change.
Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
When my mother got married, my grandfather said he'd shoot my dad with a shotgun (an inauspicious but common beginning for an interracial marriage).
Hooman Majd | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
Tonight, as Americans have decided they would prefer Obama to McCain as their next president there is a sigh of relief, and disbelief, in many quarters in the Middle East, including in Iran.
Gary Hart | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
The president-elect represents a new, post-Clinton, beyond centrism, post-racial, new politics, internet-driven phenomenon. The nation is fed up with neoconservative imperialists, radical fundamentalists, and failed supply-siders.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
Here is a collection of my posts and videos from this historic week: Obama Wins: Why All Americans Have a Reason to Celebrate Watch: Election Night Reactions: Arianna Talks With Norman Lear, Laurie David, Marty Kaplan And Madelaine Lear Tuesday's Second Biggest Winner: Democracy The Winners and Losers of Campaign '08 Watch: Arianna on BBC Newsnight Discussing Obama's Win I'm Ready to Declare a Winner in the 2008 Race: the Internet
Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
To be sure, the failing economy provided Democrats the context they needed. But a candidate with a little backbone gave them the ability to convince voters to take a chance on change.
Barbara Simons | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics