Scott Walker's 2014 win was nothing special
Scott Walker performed as well as a typical Wisconsin Republican. Explanation below. Chances are, if you read an article about Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker in the national press, it will mention...
View ArticleThe UK election results in review
Click to enlarge. Last week in the UK's general election, Conservatives pulled off a surprise victory, gaining enough seats to form a government by themselves. With 650 seats and almost a dozen...
View ArticleMap: Irish voters pass marriage equality in a landslide
Click to enlarge. Ireland made history last Friday, approving an amendment that enshrined marriage equality in the country's constitution by a wide 62-38 margin. As you can see in the map above, the...
View ArticleHow the 1815 Congress of Vienna determined the outcome of last week's Polish...
Click to enlarge. In a stunner, Polish President Bronisław Komorowski of the center-right Civic Platform lost his bid for re-election on Sunday in a runoff. Komorowski took just 48.5 percent of the...
View ArticleSpain: It's like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders formed a new political...
Imagine if Occupy Wall Street had ballooned into a massive movement with 50 million people in the streets nationwide. Imagine this grassroots upswelling coalescing into a political party unofficially...
View ArticleDaily Kos Elections presents the best map ever of United States congressional...
(click to enlarge all images) Daily Kos Elections is pleased to introduce a brand-new approach to mapping America's congressional districts. Months in the making, and inspired in part by the...
View ArticleHow did your representative vote on Obama's trade bills?
(click to enlarge) Last Friday, House Democrats wrenched President Obama's trade agenda to an unexpected, though perhaps temporary, halt. Obama had asked Congress to pass a bill that would grant him...
View ArticleTurkish voters deliver a resounding defeat for the authoritarian right
Click any image to enlarge. In a repudiation of the ruling party of Turkey and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, voters a week ago Sunday flocked to the polls to deny the Justice and Development Party...
View ArticleDenmark's right-wing parties win control of parliament—by one seat
(Click any image to enlarge) In Denmark's elections last week, the right-wing blue bloc narrowly captured a majority of seats in parliament, edging out the left-wing red bloc by just one seat. The new...
View ArticleGreeks vote against austerity in unexpected landslide
(click to enlarge) In a dramatic development on Sunday, Greek voters went to the polls and rejected another helping of austerity by more than a 22-point margin. What, exactly, they will get instead is...
View ArticleWhat if the U.S. had a parliament with proportional representation?
What would happen if, instead of a House of Representatives, the U.S. had a parliament with proportional representation? It's an interesting question to ponder, as a parliamentary system would have...
View ArticleHow one Ohio Republican kept Alaskans from correcting Denali's name for decades
Denali The invidious pet project of one former Ohio congressman has finally reached an end: Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, with the support of President Obama, has directed the United States Board...
View ArticleSorry, Republicans: The Donald's surge ain't remotely done yet
Donald Trump is sure he knows everything, even though he's more like a Know-Nothing. He started his campaign by taking Republican minority outreach and nuking it beyond recognition. He insulted...
View ArticleIt's been nearly 100 years since women won the right to vote, people, so this...
(click to enlarge) It's been almost 100 years since women were guaranteed the right to vote nationwide. And after all this time, a little less than a quarter of the legislators in our state capitals...
View ArticleWith Peak Trump in the rearview mirror, GOP establishment should still be...
With Donald Trump no longer rising in the Republican presidential primary (but still in first place), GOP leaders may be tempted to breathe a sigh of relief and relax a little bit. But that probably...
View ArticleWhy Boehner quit: In the war between the nihilists and realists, the...
(click to enlarge) House Speaker John Boehner's resignation announcement was a historic event. Very few speakers have resigned mid-term, and indeed, we could only find five others in history: Jim...
View ArticleHalfway to theocracy: 44 percent of Republicans want to make Christianity our...
From the party that's constantly hollering about Freedumz!, this is hypocrisy at its worst. Nationwide, more than a third of Republicans say that Islam should be illegal in the United States,...
View ArticleWatch the Republican Party gallop to the right over the last 40 years in this...
As we watch House Republicans descend into epic disorder, let us contemplate once more how we arrived at this congressional apocalypse: Republicans have run so far away from the middle of the...
View ArticleHow Canada's Liberals obliterated the Conservatives this week, with tons of...
(click to enlarge) On Monday, Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper's decade-long reign came to an end in dramatic fashion as left-leaning voters flocked to the historically centrist Liberal...
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