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...population's reaching 300 million. But I was struck by the comparison of the map illustrating the Electoral College votes in the 2004 presidential election and the "purple" map showing how people actually voted by county. When I look at those maps, there's little wonder why voter turnout in U.S. elections is embarrassingly low. Why bother to vote when a simple majority is all that is needed for an entire state's Electoral College votes to go to one candidate? The U.S. is busy spreading democracy overseas yet has one of the least democratic electoral systems in the developed...
...Coalition, told TIME that he expects "quite a bit of legislation" on illegal immigration to pop up in 2007 - and not just in Texas. "Because Congress did not pass a comprehensive reform bill on immigration, more and more states are going to step in like Arizona," he says. Arizona voters last month passed measures denying illegal immigrants access to state-subsidized benefits like child care as well as the right to bail and punitive damages in lawsuits. In the Texas Legislature, Colyandro expects a broad array of legislation targeting benefits to illegals, as well as voter verification of citizenship, employer...
...Instead, the membership followed the trend of the party's voters, and then some: Royal's 60.62% share of the vote among the card-carriers bested her recent poll results among the party's voter base by more than five percentage points. Former finance minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn, whose lieutenants had been peddling the competence-not-populism line, received a humiliating 20.83%, just a nose ahead of former Prime Minister Laurent Fabius's 18.54%. "Now we know that the party membership doesn't deform the will of the party's broader electorate," said party official and National Assembly deputy Bruno...
...offer a counterpoint to the speech by the officer credited with coining the term “The Long War” to describe the war on terror. Off-campus groups will also join the protest. The speech comes in the wake of a mid-term election in which voter dissatisfaction with the war in Iraq played a significant role in the Democratic takeover of Congress. Groups that are planning rallies are protesting Gen. Abizaid’s central role in the war in Iraq. “He’s the commander of CENTCOM, therefore ultimately responsible...
Ortega may have trouble solidifying his hold on power, as he won with only 38% of the vote. That was still 9 percentage points ahead of his nearest rival, U.S.-backed banker Eduardo Montealegre, leading some to conclude that Ortega profited from voter backlash against perceived U.S. meddling in the election. However, a bigger problem than Yanqui interference may have been Yanqui neglect. After Ortega was ousted from power in 1990, the U.S. did little to help war-ravaged Nicaragua get back on its feet. "We got rid of the Sandinistas and said everything else would take care of itself...