Sen. Specter's decision is another nail in the office of the more moderate Republican philosophy associated with former New York governor Nelson Rockefeller.
Brian Normoyle | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics
The President-Elect flipped eight Bush states to the blue column and managed to get two states to elect a Democrat for President for the first time in nearly half a century.
Rob Richie | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
A round of electoral reform victories in key ballot measures suggest that Americans have had enough of antiquated electoral laws.
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.
Marc R. Stanley | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
Every four years, like a broken record, we are subjected to the refrain from Republicans that "this is gong to be the year the Jewish community votes Republican," but it never proves true.
Darin Murphy | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
It's nearly impossible to grasp the sheer gravity of this moment. All watched with gaping mouths, transfixed by pride and disbelief, as Obama appeared for the first time as the next President.
Rob Richie | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics
There's a special way this election may be part of history: 2008 promises to be the very last election held under the current Electoral College system.
Mark Nickolas | Posted 09.07.2008 | Politics
It's painful to watch these fools -- they don't know how a five-point popular vote victory almost always translates when it comes to the only metric that matters -- the Electoral College. (Hint: landslide).
Chris Weigant | Posted 07.31.2008 | Politics
I had the chance recently to interview two professors in the field of statistics (from Yale University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology),...
Daniel Koffler | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics
Even if the Clinton math weren't a cynical and mendacious display of disrespect for the intelligence of the American people, it would still be flagrantly contradictory on its own terms.
Will Bower | Posted 06.03.2008 | Home
The DNC has engineered delegate values to the point where they no longer have any meaning. If each delegate represented a proportional number of humans, who would be in the lead, Clinton or Obama?
ABC's Political Punch | Jake Tapper | Posted 05.01.2008 | Politics
In today's edition of "The Note," ABC News' Rick Klein wrote that "By one (rightly disputed) metric -- the popular vote, including Florida and Michiga...
Politico | Ben Smith | Posted 03.29.2008 | Politics
The apparent collapse of planned new votes in Florida and Michigan could push victory on a key symbolic measure -- the primary season popular vote -- ...
The Hill | Aaron Blake | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
A three-year-old effort aimed at electing U.S. presidents through a popular vote is entering a critical phase in the coming weeks, with two big states...
Rob Richie | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics