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Every once in a while Democrats and the media assert that there’s never any election fraud or that it rarely results in cast votes. This is false. My favorite example is the 2003 Democratic Mayoral primary in which 32 people were convicted of vot…
This weekend’s German election has some lessons for our political context. Der Speigel sees a new German political pattern emerging from this:
After Sunday’s election, Germany’s political landscape has been shaken up, perhaps for ever. Angela Mer…
(Posted on behalf of some Virginia activists who appreciate that those who serve deserve the right to vote)
For all the attention paid to the recent voting in Iraq and Afghanistan, one would think that the process for getting absentee ballots to our ow…
I have argued for a while that Repubicans need to pick up the mantle of transparency. It is useful tactically and strategically. On the tactical level, the guys in leadership always play "hide the ball with what they are doing". This gives Re…
And now for a little bit of European news on a day that may he packed with it due to President Obama abandoning our allies in Eastern Europe for the Russians. Yesterday, the European Parliament re-elected Manuel Barroso as President of the European Com…
Internecine battles that go public always tell you more about how an organization operates. For example, a court battle after a Democratic primary in East Chicago, Indiana led to both sides testifying against each other in court about how they stole vo…
At 9:18 Friday night, I got an alert from the Washington Post. Barack Obama had slapped tariffs on imports of Chinese tires. Barack Obama’s handling of this issue shows several things. First, it shows a real contempt for China, trade policy, and …
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