Negative Space: elections
- The All-New (Improved) ElectedNet!
- I’ve just updated ElectedNet, and while it loses one feature—email addresses—it gains a few others, including next election date.
- Article I
- Article One of the U.S. Constitution sets up the Congress, how to elect them, and the duties of the Senate and House of Representatives.
- Article II
- Article Two of the U.S. Constitution sets up the office of the executive, the electoral college, and the powers of the President.
- California Proposition 14: the one-party act
- Proposition 14 appears to answer the question beltway politicians have been asking for months: how to stop future Scott Browns and Doug Hoffmans.
- Career politicians game the system in NY 23
- Take a look at those claw marks torn out of New York’s 23rd congressional district!
- The coming crisis
- We know it. We just don’t know what it is yet.
- A coup d’etat in a pitiful third world country
- We stopped flying to Palm Beach. The pilot kept crashing. He couldn’t figure out which button to press to land the plane, so he’d just hit all of them.
- DC Votes: Laundering votes and money
- As government programs grow, so does the number of government employees who will never support reform.
- ElectedNet!
- Write your representative: generate a list of your federal representatives’ and contact information by state and party.
- The endless campaign
- Should we have endless political campaigns? That’s the Barack Obama plan, but is it right for American politics?
- Follow the Other McCain for excitement in New York!
- The Other McCain is gonzoing forward in New York 23.
- Is religious faith a political sin?
- I’d be more afraid of someone who masturbates emotionlessly, than someone who follows Christianity’s teachings on adultery.
- Linking to ElectedNet
- You can link directly to a search for your state’s or your party’s representatives on ElectedNet. It’s as simple as performing the search and then copying the URL, but you can also construct the link by hand.
- My philosophy: stop, look, and listen
- When an election is close, just wait until the results are in. It’s not that hard.
- Nobody for President in 1996
- Your vote doesn’t count worth shit. Deal with it.
- Nobody’s Banners and Marks
- Show your support for “Nobody” for President.
- Shed a tear for Democracy
- Public Citizen is outraged that the Supreme Court sides with free speech. Their version of democracy, with a capital D, is government control over every aspect of a candidate’s campaign (government funding) and the candidate’s supporters (subjecting supporter advertisements to FEC whims).
- Voting for a candidate supports that candidate’s positions
- Politics has meaning; your support of a candidate is support for that candidate’s policies. If you vote for candidates who move “your” party in a direction you don’t approve, no one knows that but you. Everyone else sees your vote as approval for moving the entire party in that direction.
More Information
- Warning: Polls Are Not Campaigns
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“If all you’re doing is following the national polls—Obama’s numbers down, Republican numbers up — you are seriously underestimating the challenges facing the GOP in House races this fall… All of these Democratic incumbents are sitting on huge reserves of campaign cash, and I don’t know of a single district in the country where the Republican challenger has more money than the incumbent Democrat.”
- Going Rogue: An American Life (hardcover)
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When I heard that Palin was writing a book, I hoped it would be at least as much about her experiences in the campaign as a general autobiography. Sounds like that’s true. I’m looking forward to the Amazon preview. (Sarah Palin)
- Project Vote Smart
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The place to go for voting records and what the candidates stand for. Also, you can find your state and federal representatives if you know your zip code.
- A history of wave elections since 1894
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“Election handicappers say Republicans could possibly net 75 seats in the House. Here’s a look at prior wave elections.”
