Last year the North Carolina legislature passed a law changing candidate-versus-candidate elections for State Supreme Court to retention elections. A retention election is one in which a justice whose term is up appears on the ballot with a “yes” or … Continue reading
The big television networks have traditionally paid for exit polls. On May 6, they canceled exit polls for the Kentucky Democratic presidential primary, and for both major party primaries in California and New Jersey. … Continue reading
The Hill has this article by Alexander Bolton about anti-Trump Republicans who are still interested in sponsoring an independent presidential candidate. Toward the end of the article, it quotes a leader of this group as saying that the Texas independent … Continue reading
Mary Matalin, interviewed on television on May 5, mentioned that she had changed her voter registration from Republican to Libertarian that very day. She lives in Louisiana, a state with partisan registration. See the entire short interview here. She was … Continue reading
On May 5, Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin signed SB 896. This bill lowers the number of votes for a party to remain on the ballot, from 10% for the office at the top of the ballot (President or Governor) to … Continue reading
