This week in the War on Voting: A new Republican Southern Strategy, a lot like the old one
A Republican strategy Richard Nixon would love.
Ari Berman has another must-read article on the systematic effort of the GOP to disenfranchise millions, focusing in this installment on redistricing—and resegregation—in the South.
In virtually eve...
Yet another GOP-led state thinks drug testing the poor and jobless makes good sense
State Seal of the Commonwealth of Virginia
Are all these GOP state legislators and governors meeting up on the same Facebook page? One would think so given the speed with which these usually slow-moving politicians on issues like clean energy and env...
4th Circuit keeps ‘tardy’ Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich off Virginia ballot
A panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has affirmed the Eastern District of Virginia's ruling that Gov. Rick Perry and former Speaker Newt Gingrich protested Virginia's laws regarding out-of-state circulators too late in ...
The states to watch on Election Night 2012: Six months later
Pennsylvania: The new #1!
In the summer of 2011, here on Sunday Kos, I attempted to quantify the level of interest we could expect in the 2012 elections for each state. The top three states were largely where you would expect: Florida, Ohio and North...
This week in the War on Voting: New Hampshire target of right-wing voter fraud conspiracy
From the DNC's Protecting the Vote site.
This week saw the war on voting carried to a ridiculous extreme. In order to prove the conservative case that conspiracies to commit voter fraud exist, James O'Keefe carried out a conspiracy to commit voter fr...
This week in the War on Voting: When Republicans hate ballot restrictions
Ezra Klein has a great column, pointing out that finally Republicans have found voting restrictions they don't like.
Rick Perry said the laws were “among the most onerous in the nation,” and possibly even unconstitutional. Newt Gingrich compared ...
Virginia to require ‘loyalty oaths’ from prospective Republican voters
This graphic is scary, and yet I can't stop using it.
How very Soviet!
The [Virginia] Republican Party will require voters to sign a loyalty oath in order to participate in the March 6 presidential primary.
Anyone who wants to vote must sign a form a...
Daily Kos Elections Polling Wrap: A poll for every spinmeister
Barack Obama is stronger than he was in 2008 in a key state.
Or, maybe, he's a lot weaker than he was in 2008 in a key state.
Mitt Romney is still nowhere in Iowa.
Or, maybe, Mitt Romney has a semi-respectable lead in Iowa.
As was the case on Tuesday,...
Daily Kos Elections Polling Wrap: The best of both worlds (for Democrats)
While perusing the polling data which dropped on Wednesday, it is hard to find a data point that is going to upset Democrats all that much. Taken as a whole, the data shows the following:
Newt Gingrich holding onto a national polling lead.
Gingrich a...
