Ron Paul told the New York Times, in a lengthy interview, that it is “at least 50-50” that he will run for President in 2012.  The story says Paul only got 2% of the vote when he ran in 2008.  This is incorrect.  In the Republican presidential primaries, Paul got 5.6% of the total vote cast in all Republican presidential primaries, placing fourth.  John McCain got 47.3%; Mitt Romney got 21.7%; Mike Huckabee got 20.1%.

At the November 2, 2010 election, Bridgeport, Connecticut, only printed 21,000 ballots, even though the city has 63,000 registered voters.  This comprehensive newspaper story describes the cascading consequences of that decision.  The city ran out of ballots, so election officials photocopied more, but that in turn caused many other problems.  Thanks to Sam Edelston for the link.

Many centrist major party politicians will attend the December 13 meeting in New York City of “No Labels”, a group dedicated to persuading the two major parties to work together more cooperatively.  See this story.