Daily Kos Elections Polling Wrap: The Rasmussen disconnect deepens
Critiques of Rasmussen polling from the left have become something of a time-honored tradition, particularly here at Daily Kos. Today, though, it is not just a matter of them being on an island. It is a matter of them showing two politicians at equal ...
Daily Kos Elections Polling Wrap: The presidential state of play on day #1 of the general election
So, I've been out of the loop a bit today. Has anything relevant to the 2012 election happen today?
Not that the primary wasn't already a done deal, but I suppose it's nice to make it semi-official. Unless, of course, you sense that the suspension of ...
This week in the War on Voting: Florida’s voter registration problem
Last year, Floridans enacted a voter registration law severely limiting the ability of third parties, like the League of Women Voters, to do the essential function of helping people register to vote. You might remember the case of Jill Cicciarelli, a ...
This week in the War on Voting: Blocking the electoral vote
(Brennan Center)
The Brennan Center for Justice has identified 189 electoral votes in 2012 coming from states with new restrictive voting laws.
Since the beginning of 2011, 13 states passed, or are on the verge of passing, restrictive voting laws tha...
This week in the War on Voting: Selma-to-Montgomery revisited
U.S. Rep. John Lewis recalls the march across the Edmund Pettis Bridge.
This week, several thousand people reenacted the historic march across the Edmund Pettis Bridge.
[T]his year’s event had a more modern purpose—to protest tough new voting law...
This week in the War on Voting: In honor of Sen. Hiram Rhoads Revels
Sen. Hiram Rhoads Revels
Today is the 142nd anniversary of the swearing in to the U.S. Senate of Hiram Rhoads Revels, an AME minister and the first black person to serve in the Senate. Carl Chancellor, senior Editor at the Center for American Progres...
This week in the War on Voting: Don’t blame Canada, emulate it
Meteor Blades wrote earlier in the week about the Pew Center on the State's study detailing the problems the antiquated voter registration system most states use, and the subsequent crappy voter lists most states are working with. He summed up their ...
You can’t spell Romney without ’money’
The established narrative about Mitt Romney is that he's a rich fuck out of touch with Americans and their concerns, and incapable of connecting with another human being unless he's firing them. So how does Romney explain his losses yesterday?
"We wer...
Mitt Romney struggles with expectations management as his inevitability takes a hit
Mitt Romney explaining why Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri don't matter (Rick Wilking/Reuters)
Having run a campaign that put on a public face of inevitability, Mitt Romney faces a big problem with expectations management as he struggles to actually...
Santorum romps through clean sweep
Romney Slayer (Gage Skidmore)
I tried three headlines trying to avoid the obvious Santorum jokes and failed. They're impossible to avoid.
But who cares! Republican voters in the West and Midwest just told their party to shove their presumptive nomine...
Daily Kos Elections liveblog thread #12
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Tonight is the first multi-state night in the clown race we call the GOP nomination contest, with caucuses in Colorado and Minnesota, and a non-binding beauty co...
