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.

On December 13, the U.S. Supreme Court released the results of its December 10 conference.  At that conference, the Court sent Clemons v U.S. Department of Commerce, 10-291, back to the U.S. District Court, and told the U.S. District Court to dismiss the case for want of jurisdiction.

This is the case in which voters from certain states had argued that “one person, one vote” principles are being violated by the fact that some U.S. House districts have almost twice as much population as certain other districts.  For instance, Montana and Wyoming each have one seat, but Montana’s population is almost twice Wyoming’s population.  The plaintiffs had also argued that the only method for curing this problem is to increase the size of the U.S. House.  The Supreme Court’s action today seems to mean that the Court feels this case is one which the courts could not even legitimately entertain.

Georgia held a a statewide run-off election on November 30, 2010, for the statewide positions for which no candidate had received at least 50% on November 2.  The most important office on the run-off ballot was for Justice of the State Supreme Court, a non-partisan race.

Whereas 2,090,164 voters had cast a ballot for that office on November 2, only 263,565 votes were cast for the same office on November 30.  That number is only 4.55% of the number of registered voters in Georgia.