The Tally Room

It's now just after 5pm in Washington DC and I will be occupied tonight attending election night events and won't be immediately liveblogging. If you want to comment on the election, please use this thread. I will work on some post-election coverage tomorrow. 7:32pm - Republicans have...

I'm currently in Orlando, one of the largest cities in Florida. A number of very interesting contests are taking place in this area. In the Senate, Republican candidate Marco Rubio looks set to gain the seat. Rubio is currently leading in the polls over independent...

As the campaign comes into its final week, the airwaves in California are jampacked with negative campaign ads. While I've been in San Francisco and Sacramento, I've spent my limited time in front of a television watching negative ads packing the advertising breaks on...

Today I visited the election administration in Alameda County, which covers areas on the eastern side of San Francisco Bay, centred on the City of Oakland. One point of interest that I wasn't aware of is that three of this county's larger cities will...

I'm currently staying in San Francisco, visiting for the US midterm elections. California is a more interesting state than you would normally expect for such a Democratic state at this year's midterm elections. You have a highly competitive gubernatorial race, a strong Republican challenge...

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...