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Before his conviction, Stevens was locked in a tight re-election race with Anchorage mayor Mark Begich; after the jury returned a verdict, Stevens' poll numbers dipped. But even if Stevens does eke out a victory, he is already facing calls from across his party to resign soon afterward. Both...
Stevens treated the verdict like just another feature of a re-election campaign, claiming "prosecutorial misconduct" and vowing to "fight this unjust verdict with every ounce of energy I have." It is possible that in Alaska, with oil prices tanking, voters could decide that their state will have a hard...
Kinsley is correct to say we need leaders brave enough to practice astringency, telling people what they don't want to hear. But his example of a leader who was great because he was astringent - Winston Churchill - never won an election through astringency. Throughout the 1930s, when he was warning...
Fortunately, the current explosion of Web 2.0 solutions appears perfectly poised to democratize further the voting process. Ideally, the names and registration status of all voters could be made publicly available on the state website. Each person would be able to identify his or her own voting status directly and...
Whether any of the voter purges in this election were politically motivated will probably not be revealed for some time to come. Regardless, an independent, transparent system is necessary to ensure the functioning of a stable democracy. Immediately, HAVA legislation can be extended to standardize this process. In the long...