Breaking down the NSW adoption vote
Australia's political parties tend to have very strong internal discipline, with Members of Parliament exercising a 'conscience vote' very rarely. We saw an example...
USA 2010: Nevada Senate
Nevada is a swing state, going with the party winning each presidential election since 1980. Nevada is also a rapidly growing state, having gained...
USA 2010: Ohio Senate
Ohio is a typical swing state, having gone to the winning presidential candidate at every election since 1964. Ohio's two Senate seats are currently...
USA 2010: Colorado Senate
Colorado has recently acted as a swing state at all levels, moving back and forth between the Democrats and Republicans. Most recently, the Democrats...
USA 2010: Senate elections
Voters in 37 US states will go to the polls on November to elect members of the US Senate.
In 34 states, senators will be...
USA 2010: Introducing the midterms
The United States of America holds federal elections every two years, always in even numbered years on the first Tuesday after the first Monday...
Liberal wins going to High Court?
Another barrier has been put in front of Tony Abbott forming a minority government.
A constitutional provision prohibits anyone holding "an office of profit under...
Newly updated maps
I have gone through all of my Google Earth maps available for download from the blog for 2010 federal election boundaries, and updated the...
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I've had a lot of visitors in the last few days, despite the major outage suffered on the weekend.
While visiting the site, you should...
New counts in Denison and Grayndler
I spent today in the AEC's counting centre in Sydney where the AEC was conducting a new two-candidate preferred count between the ALP and...