In 2012, 160 counties cast about the same number of votes as the rest of the country. But, your run-of-the-mill election map won't show you that.
Below is our chart of presidential election results for the 2020 election according to the congressional district lines that will be used in the 2024 elections. To view this chart in spreadsheet form, click here. These results are visualized in the map...
A collection of cartoons on the presidential race.
With Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell welcoming the move, it would be politically difficult for Donald Trump to reverse it.
Below is our chart of presidential election results for the 2020 election according to the congressional district lines that will be used in the 2024 elections. To view this chart in spreadsheet form, click here. These results are visualized in the map...
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The first political event I remember was the eve of the 1960 election between Nixon and Kennedy. Daddy paced round the living room, the dining room, down the hallway into the kitchen (to rattle som…
Billionaire conservatives Charles and David Koch have created a labyrinthine network of political nonprofits and LLCs to try to influence voters to elect more conservatives, as OpenSecrets Blog has regularly reported. Our collaboration with the Washington Post found the network raised more than $400 million during the 2012 elections, and we produced a map showing how the coalition operated.
October 19, 2016 Posted by Jay Livingston How is Donald Trump doing in his campaign to undermine the legitimacy of the presidency? He has...
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POLICYMIC | Benji Soto | August 14, 2012 For decades, Ron Paul was cast into the shadow of mainstream American politics, criticized and ou...
[My brief impression in square bracket.] Democratic Party of Japan, Yoshihiko Noda: "What matters is decision [in the very large font]. R...
Travel the maze of money the Koch Brothers spent on the 2012 election.
In the three weeks since the election, we’ve heard excuses and explanations from Mitt Romney, his pollsters, and his chief campaign strategist....
The results would almost certainly have been dramatically different.
In a wide-ranging discussion of music and politics, he says election day should be a national holiday.
As the elections ramp up to full-throttle, we thought we should do our part as Americans, as designers, and as huxters to create art that adds to the whole spectacle. Several months ago, ADG’s founder, Joel Anderson started creating few political prints to encourage folks to cut through the spin and find out what each party is really selling. (The candidates and the media are always selling us something. They might talk about the economy, but WE are actually producing products that create jobs and stimulate the economy!) We even set up a new store section on our web site called Political Pimp to make our cheeky, inspiring and irreverent designs available to poster fans of all political stripes. After Republican Mitt Romney picked running mate Paul Ryan, and President Obama decided to stick with Joe Biden, we knew that the stage was set for a few months of entertaining full-out smack-down campaign combat. We asked our intern Aaron Johnson (who will be a full-time staff designer soon) to contribute 2 sets of designs for the under-30 crowd. Aaron delivered with the devilishly funny roll-play-card-game-inspired Campaign Combat series and the hip, adorable 8-bit Multi-Player Melee series. Then veteran staff artist Ligia Teodosiu came up with 2 prints that celebrate great presidents from each party. The quotes she selected for each of the presidents are inspiring and informative. The whole series has turned out to be a lot of fun... we hope they get people thinking about the issues, our economy, and our nation’s future. After we finished all of the poster concepts. Joel took the designs and created 3 collectible postcard sets: • One set for Republicans, • Another set for Democrats, • And a third set for folks who are either undecided, or just want to own a copy of every design in this series. All the prints are for sale on our site from now until the elections, and they will be featured on Fab.com in a sale that runs from August 30th to September 3rd. These ready-to-frame designs look great on the wall. Get yours while you can—these are limited edition prints, and they are already going fast!
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With the vote counting drawing to a close, Mitt Romney is set to end up as 'Mr 47 percent' - the proportion of Americans he infamously branded as 'victims' and 'dependent on the state'.
The results would almost certainly have been dramatically different.
Where do politicians come from? The new Congress, by the numbers
This extremely interesting WashPost article has an interactive piece that lets you see how gerrymandered your House seat is. But it goes further discussing that some of the most gerrymandered districts are done by opposing parties because the oppositions wants to contain the party in as few places as possible. It also argues that Maryland and North Carolina are the two most gerrymandered states while Nevada and Indiana are the least.
Roseanne Barr Snags 5th Place In Presidential Election
In 2012, 160 counties cast about the same number of votes as the rest of the country. But, your run-of-the-mill election map won't show you that.
We’re getting hammered with phone calls playing automated messages, tired of door-knockin’ campaigners, and are DVRing our shows to fast forward through political commercials. Despite all this, I find the opportunity to vote to be absolutely exhilarating. My son has started to catch the fever too. The first time he tagged along to a polling location, he told me that the barrier blocking fellow voters from seeing my ballot was "really there so people don’t cheat.” That still cracks me up. I find my son’s love of our country’s presidential legacy endearing. So when he began asking questions about the voting process, I wanted to find a way for us to hold a mock election. I made a political party die and explained to him that the donkey is a sign of the Democratic Party and the elephant is a symbol of the Republican Party. Download this PDF here. Then we read a great piece of children’s literature by Eileen Christelow. Vote! Is a wonderful account of two candidates running for mayor and the voting process. My son was surprised to read that not everyone was allowed to vote until the constitution was amended. (We especially loved the commentary by the book’s two dogs.) When we were done with the book. I told my son to roll the die and fill in a box, representing one vote, for each roll. When one column was full, the polls closed. My son loved this neck-and-neck political race. When done, he counted the votes for each party. I told him that the losing party questioned the accuracy of his math; a recount was in order! It was one tight race and a seriously fun beginner’s lesson in the election process. I am a deceptive mom and I approved this message.
