Maine Voters To Decide Future Of Gay Marriage Law Tuesday
PORTLAND, Maine — Gay marriage has lost in every single state in which it has been put to a popular vote. Come Election Day, gay-rights supporte...
PORTLAND, Maine — Gay marriage has lost in every single state in which it has been put to a popular vote. Come Election Day, gay-rights supporte...
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.
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.
Rick Horowitz | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
The Ten-Foot Poll was created to plug some of those glaring gaps in the election coverage offered by the networks, the cable outlets and even the internet.
AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Bush has called Barack Obama to congratulate him on winning the presidency. The two-term Republican president told the I...
CNN | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
Sen. John Kerry released the following statement in response to Sen. Barack Obama's victory: "Tonight we elected a President who has inspired a major...
The Huffington Post | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
MSNBC describes the mood in John McCain's villa: Senior staffers are gathering to spend time with Senator McCain at the "family villa" they are usin...
Huffington Post | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
See below for the results of election 2008! Daily Kos Map CNN's Electoral Map Google Map: Follow Presidential, Senate House Races CBS News ...
Media Matters | Posted 12.05.2008 | Media
Sometimes, the multitude of information and data that floods the airwaves on Election Day can be too overwhelming to keep track of. During MSNBC's co...
NY Times/Huffington Post | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
Pundits and pollsters may be trying to take all the fun out of Election Day. So many have predicted a lopsided victory for Senator Barack Obama over S...
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.
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. | Posted 10.23.2008 | Chicago
The race is no longer about delegates, party rules, or even the popular vote, it's now about electoral votes. And because the race is close, once again a major Constitutional flaw is exposed--the Electoral College.
Charles Kozierok | Posted 10.20.2008 | Home
"Winning the popular vote" doesn't mean what most people think it does, and the conclusions that people draw from this bogus metric are myths.
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),...
Politico | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics
Until 2000, it hadn't happened in more than 100 years, but plugged-in observers from both parties see a distinct possibility of Barack Obama winning t...
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.21.2008 | Politics
Nobody seriously annoyed me this week, but I will launch a pre-emptive finger-wagging, to anyone on the left who can't resist the urge to be disrespectful of Tim Russert's memory right now.
Donald Sutherland | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics
Haven't we had enough of Mrs. Clinton's mad antics in her pursuit of the realization of venal personal ambition?
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.
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...
Robert Creamer | Posted 05.01.2008 | Politics
She started with a lead of almost 20 points. But her final margin of 9.2% fell far short of what was needed to stop Obama's nomination. Here's why.
Political Radar | Eloise Harper | Posted 04.13.2008 | Politics
For a while now, Sen. Hillary Clinton has been saying that the winner of the popular vote should matter. But if Michigan and Florida don't count in t...
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 -- ...
Boston Globe's Political Intelligence | Foon Rhee | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Hillary Clinton will take the Democratic nomination even if she does not win the popular vote, but persuades enough superdelegates to vote for her at ...
AP | DAVID SHARP | Posted 11.01.2009 | Politics