NDP goes for the throat
Only days ago, Jack Layton's NDP remained in a technical coalition with Michael Ignatieff's Liberals in Canada. Yet after the coalition was dissolved by...
Canada on the brink
So Canada's conservative government has brought down a budget, eight weeks after Parliament was prorogued to prevent a new Liberal-NDP coalition government being formed.
The...
Iceland goes to the polls
The voters go to the polls in Iceland on 9 May to elect a new Parliament. The current government fell in the last few...
Essential’s “Best PM” poll
Essential Research has produced a fascinating poll, asking voters who they thought was Australia's best post-WWII Prime Minister. The poll put the 21st century...
2009 election preview: British Columbia
The Canadian province of British Columbia will go to the polls on May 12, 2009, to elect 85 members of the Legislative Assembly, and...
Aging in office: inauguration edition
As a special pre-inauguration treat, for all of you staying up through the night, check out AOL's slide show of "before and after" photos...
Ecuador goes to the polls
After my series of election previews, I'm not gonna add another one to the pile (although my British Columbia post should come out tomorrow)....
Transition blues
I'm reading Jonathan Alter's The Defining Moment, which goes into the first hundred days of Franklin Roosevelt's administration in 1933. Alter in particular looks...
Nationals experiment with open primaries
Via Pollbludger, a fascinating story in the Australian the other day has revealed plans by the NSW Nationals to trial using open primaries to...
Frome by-election
The electors of Frome in South Australia went to the polls today to elect a new member of the South Australian House of Assembly...