NZ update: United Future and key electorate polls
With six days to go before the New Zealand general election, there has been little change in the campaigns. The opinion polls retain the...
Why Pennsylvania?
John McCain's campaign has focused much of its energy on Pennsylvania, despite remaining well short of winning the state in most polls. At first...
Reflections on MMP
Malcolm Mackerras has written in Thursday's Crikey, critiquing New Zealand's Mixed Member Proportional electoral system (subscription required):
Having studied the referendum results of September 1992...
US08 – Vote early, vote often
With six days to go before polls close in the US, levels of early voting are at their highest levels in a US election....
Florida, The Year 2000
Courtesy of FiveThirtyEight.com, this fascinating report outlining what went on in the process of calling the state of Florida for Al Gore, then reversing...
Where do the Greens go in the ACT?
With the final count resulting in the fourth Green, Caroline le Couteur, elected to the final seat in the ACT Legislative Assembly, the ACT's...
This week in satire – October 27
Note: I'm going to be away from the internet for much of this week, so expect less regular posts. But I'll be back on...
Swing state stories: Virginia
Since Eisenhower's first election in 1952, Virginia has been a solidly Republican state, only going to the Democrats in the landslide election of 1964....
Meanwhile, in Scotland…
Gordon Brown has had a bad year with by-elections in the UK. Four by-elections were held in two months in the summer of 2008....
New Zealand update
New Zealand goes to the polls on November 8 to elect its national Parliament. New Zealand uses the Mixed Member Proportional system (which is...