US08: Summary of results part 1 – the Presidency
Barack Obama has been elected 44th President of the United States. In addition to winning all of those states won by John Kerry in...
Liveblogging USA
5:22pm - So I'm going home. With the Presidency, it appears that Obama will pick up North Carolina and Indiana, while Missouri will go...
Just f**king vote already! The US election prediction thread
With twenty-four hours to go until polls close in the first states in the US election, I thought it was a good time to...
This Week in Satire: November 3
Two clips today from the Daily Show last week.
NZ update: United Future and key electorate polls
With six days to go before the New Zealand general election, there has been little change in the campaigns. The opinion polls retain the...
Why Pennsylvania?
John McCain's campaign has focused much of its energy on Pennsylvania, despite remaining well short of winning the state in most polls. At first...
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...