The Tally Room

Later today I will be heading to San Francisco for the final week of the US midterm elections. I plan to blog while I am over there, as well as writing a couple more pieces for Crikey on top of three already written. I have...

You may have noticed that there has not been any new posts on the blog for the last two weeks. I have taken a break from posting on the front page of the blog for the next two weeks. I am currently writing my...

The NSW Labor government is currently using the cover of supposed "campaign finance reform" to rig the public funding system to give more money to major parties and radically cut the funding to smaller parties. Last Tuesday, Keneally announced that she would be proposing campaign...

The UK Labour Party has provided a great deal of data on how members voted in the recent election for the leadership of the party. The Labour website has published the full preference ballot for all Members of the House of Commons and the European...

In a remarkably close result, Ed Milliband has won the vote of Labour MPs, Labour Party members and union members to become the next leader of the Labour Party, in the first close-run result under the hybrid electoral system. The UK Labour Party elects its...

Colorado's current Govenor is Bill Ritter (D), who is not standing for re-election in 2010, after being elected at the 2006 election. Colorado's gubernatorial elections were dominated by Democrats throughout the 20th century, holding office for 60 years in the 20th Century. The Democrats held...

The UK Labour Party is currently entering the final stages of a months-long process to choose a leader to succeed Gordon Brown, following their election defeat earlier this year. Prime Minister Gordon Brown resigned, both as Labour leader and as Prime Minister, on 11 May,...

Minnesota's current Governor is Republican Tim Pawlenty. After eight years in office, Pawlenty is not running for a third term this year. While Minnesota has voted Democrat consistently at every Presidential election since 1972, and has leaned Democratic in Senatorial and House elections, the Governor's...

The Tea Party movement has significantly shaped American politics since it emerged early in 2009. The movement emerged out of the Ron Paul campaign for President as a libertarian-conservative campaign against taxation, which quickly spread to cover most right-wing causes, and acting as an...

Delaware is going to the polls this November in a special election to fill the Senate seat vacated by Vice President Joe Biden in 2008. Biden won his Senate seat in 1972, defeating sitting Republican senator Caleb Boggs, who was running for a third term....