by David A. Hopkins In the 2018 midterm elections, 50% of eligible U.S. citizens turned out to vote. Because Americans are always less inclined to show up at the polls in years when the presidency isn’t on the ballot, half of the nation feeling sufficiently motivated to vote was a ...
Tight races evidence that every vote counts Thank you to everyone who turned out to exercise their constitutional right to vote, whether you cast your ballot during early voting or on Election Day. Voting is a right, but it’s also a privilege that too many of us take for granted. ...
“Maybe we need to blow this b-tch up.” Five years ago, that was the considered opinion of comedian Mike Yard, a panelist on Larry Wilmore’s old Comedy Central program, “The Nightly Show.” It came as candidate Bernie Sanders absorbed a crushing primary defeat in New York and it ...
The 2015 article “Comparing the Effectiveness of Positive and Negative Political Campaigns” by Peter A. Gregory (found in Inquiries Journal) posits an interesting premise: Negative political ads hurt the attacker more than the attackee. Gregory analyzed research going back to 1991, ...
Among the many bills we have our eye on this legislative session is HB 2592, which would require counties and municipalities to hold local elections on the same day as a statewide election (such as a primary or general election). We actually think this is a good idea, though we can see ...
The Dominion Post With three days of early voting remaining, more than 20% of the county’s registered voters have already gotten to the polls. As of the end of voting Wednesday, 15,297 ballots had been cast. Early voting will continue from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. through Saturday at the ...