Almost six months ago, California’s Peace & Freedom Party launched a National Organizing Committee, with the mission of exploring a united “left” presidential campaign in 2012. The Committee is holding a two-day forum in San Francisco, December 10-11. The group … Continue reading
Rhodes Cook has this lengthy analysis, pointing out that it is not too late for a new Republican presidential candidate to emerge. Cook is well-positioned to write this article. He is the editor of The Rhodes Cook Letter, a quarterly … Continue reading
Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry, and Mitt Romney are the only three Republican presidential candidates who filed petitions on December 7 to be on the Ohio Republican presidential primary. See this story. On the Democratic side, only President Obama filed. Candidates … Continue reading
Law Professor Rick Hasen, whose blog is ElectionLawBlog.org, sometimes allows guest posters. Here is a link to a guest post by Professor Darry Sragow, which is fairly lengthy, and which defends Americans Elect against various criticisms made by Hasen himself, … Continue reading
Tom Ammiano, one of San Francisco’s two members of the California Assembly, has this op-ed in the San Francisco Bay Guardian about the current public relations campaign to eliminate Instant Runoff Voting. Ammiano is a former San Francisco Supervisor who … Continue reading
