August 6 is the 48th anniversary of the signing of the Voting Rights Act. This is the first anniversary since the Supreme Court invalidated Section 4 of the Act, striking critical protections for voters in 9 Southern states and various … [Read more...]
Counting Every Vote
In the late 1960's Alexander Pope's famous saying "To err is human, to forgive divine," got an update for modern times: "To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer." As the election gets close, there are already … [Read more...]
case study – primary concerns
Let's figure that the enrolled Ds split between the urban moderate and the suburban liberal, but there is a groundswell of unenrolleds who come into the primary to vote and nominate the conservative professor, who wins with 36% of the … [Read more...]