Daily Kos Elections Polling Wrap: The women’s vote, 2012 elections, and a possible enthusiasm gap
Another day, another serving of conflicting data on the presidential election. Having a double-digit point spread between presidential polls has been the norm, as of late, so today's offerings won't disappoint.
While there are some interesting bits of...
Allen West stands by his claim of Communist Party members in Congress
From James Carter (via Steve Benen), here's Rep. Allen West (R-FL-very-very-nuts) explaining what he meant when he recently said that there were 80 or so "members of the Communist Party" in Congress. Or at least, he's trying to explain what he meant. I...
Daily Kos Elections Polling Wrap: Presidential daily trackers off to rather odd start
If nothing else, the pair of daily tracking polls on the presidential election between the incumbent, Barack Obama, and his challenger Mitt Romney have the same leader. Curiously, it is not the guy that has led in 90-plus percent of the non-tracking p...
This week in the War on Voting: Texas tea partiers indicted for voter fraud
Voter fraud advocates? (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
In the news this week, James O'Keefe was at it again, proving that voter fraud is a fever-dream of the far right. But alert Kossack rm1948 sent a tip on a story that shows voter fraud isn't just a Repub...
Open thread for night owls: Idiocracy
Sigh. All right, let's do this thing:
Allen West provides a head count on the number of Communists in the [House] Dem Caucus
REP. ALLEN WEST (R-FL): I believe there's about 70, 80 to 81 members of the Democratic Party that are members of the C...
Open thread for night owls: Idiocracy
Sigh. All right, let's do this thing:
Allen West provides a head count on the number of Communists in the [House] Dem Caucus
REP. ALLEN WEST (R-FL): I believe there's about 70, 80 to 81 members of the Democratic Party that are members of the C...
This week in the War on Voting: Voter Fraud Fraud and the lesson of Indiana
Center for American Progress
Always on top of the ongoing threat to representative democracy posed by Republican office-holders, The Nation's Ari Berman caught a telling moment from FOX News:
As President Obama spoke about Representative Paul Ryan’...
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 ...
Daily Kos Elections Polling Wrap: Obama’s numbers strong in both national and swing state polls
Clearly, the lesson for this week: don't ask Steve Singiser to make predictions.
This week, on the assumption that the load of political polling on the presidential race was about to dip, with Mitt Romney effectively cemented as the GOP nominee, we be...
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...
