Reflections on MMP
Malcolm Mackerras has written in Thursday's Crikey, critiquing New Zealand's Mixed Member Proportional electoral system (subscription required):
Having studied the referendum results of September 1992...
US08 – Vote early, vote often
With six days to go before polls close in the US, levels of early voting are at their highest levels in a US election....
Florida, The Year 2000
Courtesy of FiveThirtyEight.com, this fascinating report outlining what went on in the process of calling the state of Florida for Al Gore, then reversing...
Where do the Greens go in the ACT?
With the final count resulting in the fourth Green, Caroline le Couteur, elected to the final seat in the ACT Legislative Assembly, the ACT's...
This week in satire – October 27
Note: I'm going to be away from the internet for much of this week, so expect less regular posts. But I'll be back on...
Swing state stories: Virginia
Since Eisenhower's first election in 1952, Virginia has been a solidly Republican state, only going to the Democrats in the landslide election of 1964....
Meanwhile, in Scotland…
Gordon Brown has had a bad year with by-elections in the UK. Four by-elections were held in two months in the summer of 2008....
New Zealand update
New Zealand goes to the polls on November 8 to elect its national Parliament. New Zealand uses the Mixed Member Proportional system (which is...
ACT results update
It seems that the ACT Electoral Commission is updating results every evening around this time (although I'm running on Wednesday night's results. Each day...
US08: It ain’t over ’til it’s over, but…
As an extra item for people to consider, Charlie Cook lays out how the metrics of the race show that Obama's position is much...