On November 16, the U.S. District Court in Richmond, Virginia, again heard Miller v Brown, 3:05cv-266. The issue is whether the First Amendment protects the Republican Party’s right to insist on a closed primary for itself. The case was originally … Continue reading
With approximately 98% of the votes counted, the Green Party gubernatorial candidates polled 854,474 votes across the nation. This is the highest vote total for the gubernatorial candidates of any party (other than the Democratic and Republican Parties) since the … Continue reading
Teddy Roosevelt’s Progressive Party polled 2,205,542 votes for its candidates for US House in 1912, and 1,117,939 votes for that office in 1914. But after that, no party other than the Democratic and Republican Parties had ever polled as much … Continue reading
At the November 7 election, there was one U.S. House race in which an independent candidate outpolled a major party nominee. Tennessee’s 9th district voted: Democrat Steve Cohen 59.9%; independent Jake Ford 22.2%; Republican Mark White 18.0%. Jake Ford was … Continue reading
As a result of the November 7 election, Democrats control both houses of the legislature in 23 states, whereas Republicans control both houses in 15 states (the remainder are split between the two major parties, or are non-partisan). The National … Continue reading
