edited by: Adam Haverstock,
California Editor
Tuesday’s dismal turnout at the polls added fuel to the call to do away with polling places and conduct elections entirely by mail, as is done in Oregon, two small California counties and at least one California city.
Just 9,172 - 4 percent - of the 72nd Assembly District’s voters went [...]
The Washington D.C. City Council is poised to slap same-sex marriage (SSM) on the table in our nation's capital, whether the citizens want it or not. And now, to add insult to penury, the District of Columbia Board of Elections and Ethics [sic] has made its own contribution to democracy... [...]
The news is not good for President Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats on the political front. Obama's popularity has dropped below 50% in public opinion polls and independents, who often provide the margin of victory in national elections, aren't backing Democratic policies.
That suggests big problems for Democrats in next year's [...]
Yesterday’s New York Times ran an editorial entitled “Gerrymandering, Pure and Corrupt” which explained how New York state legislators have used the process of redistricting in the past to gerrymander state legislature districts in ways that limit competition in elections and help the incumbents stay in office. The editorial [...]
As many of you may know that last Tuesday while voters in Maine rejected gay marriage, voters in Washington State approved domestic partnerships. That “split decision” occasioned my latest column for Pajamas Media. Here’s a taste:
Largely lost amidst the hullabaloo of Republican gubernatorial victories in New Jersey and Virginia and [...]
The San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council announced last week their endorsement for Humberto Peraza for City Council in Chula Vista for the June 2010 elections.
Well, Iraq finally passed a law that all observers seem to agree was critical as all get-out to govern scheduled elections in January. That’s potentially good news as a screwed-up election could provide a reason to keep U.S. troops in Iraq longer (though the scheduled beginning of the pullout in [...]
... the G.O.P. has been taken over by the people it used to exploit. ... Once elections were [...]
The conventional wisdom is that the 49 Democrats from congressional districts that backed John McCain last fall are those likely to tip the balance in the current debate on health care.
Given the results of last Tuesday’s elections, however, those Democrats for districts which delivered 45% of their votes [...]
In trying to spin the results of this week’s elections to fit the Democratic/media narrative that Republicans are a dying species, Administration officials dwell on the results in NY-23 as if the White House were indifferent to the races in New Jersey and Virginia. And anyway, the Democratic candidate in [...]
Focusing on the campaign in New York’s 23rd Congressional District as if it were the only election conducted last week, leading Democrats from the White House on down tell us that the GOP is a divided party, beholden to its far right extremist fringe. Well, those people peddling that partisan [...]
This press release just in from Registrar of Voters Neal Kelley’s office:
The Orange County Registrar of Voters invites community members to apply as volunteers for their newly created Community Election Working Group (CEW) that consolidates its various outreach committees. The working group was established to continue the Registrar of Voters’ [...]
Today I [...]
Most of the coverage of Tuesday’s elections in Virginia has focused on the Republican sweep of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Attorney General offices. The story has centered on the turnaround of statewide candidates from 2008 when Democrats Barack Obama and Mark Warner were victorious in Virginia to less than [...]
Exit polls suggest that the Virginia and New Jersey elections were not considered referenda on Obama, who is still widely personally popular, but there were plenty of danger signs for Democrats. For the most part independents, who went Democrat in 2006 and moreso in 2008, went Republican this [...]
Strong national trends and the spin machines from both major parties are doing their best to make hay of the election contests on Tuesday night. Here at CaliforniaCityNews we know that the most telling election results come from the diverse set of local elections we have from throughout the state [...]
I will wait to write a more comprehensive post on gay issues and the 2009 elections when we get final returns from Washington State where a measure to uphold the state’s Domestic Partnership program currently clings to a narrow lead. If that margin holds, the Evergreen State will be the [...]
This post originally appeared at Speak Out California.
There are a few lessons to take away from last night's elections. The main one is that Democrats should act like Democrats if they want Democrats to show up and vote. Low-turnout elections are base elections: you have to turn out your [...]
There are a few lessons to take away from last night's elections. The main one is that Democrats should act like Democrats if they want Democrats to show up and vote. Low-turnout elections are base elections: you have to turn out your base or you will lose.
Virginia: The Democrat [...]
So, did anything important happen yesterday? Let’s mosey over to the L.A. Times web site for the latest. Here’s their top headline as of 11:12 p.m. last night:
Ah, so the Big News is that Democrats won victories in California and New York!!!!1!1!!
(And, oh [...]
Vote-by-mail results just posted in Contra Costa County show Democratic Lt. Gov. John Garamendi leading with 57 percent compared with 38 percent for Republican David Harmer.
The results offer a stronger than usual window into the outcome because elections officials expect 75 percent of all ballots cast in this special [...]
The mainstream media has pretty much missed the biggest story about the energy on the right not just in the fall campaigns concluding with today’s elections, but since the first tea party took place sometime last February.
So committed are they to pushing the narrative of an attempted coup by social [...]
