The Tally Room

Via Daily Kos, former US Ambassador to Canberra Tom Schieffer has announced that he is considering a bid for Governor of Texas as a Democrat. The Texas gubernatorial race is turning into a fierce race on the Republican side between incumbent Rick Perry and...

It's a slightly old story, but the European Green Party, the umbrella party for all Green parties across the continent, have condemned the Mexican Greens for their position on the death penalty, and opened the possibility of Mexico's Green Party being expelled from the...

In today's Australian, the regular bimonthly state poll for New South Wales shows a swing back to Labor from a catastrophic low of 26% in December 2008. Labor is up from 26% to 30%, while the Coalition drops from 43% to 42%. The Greens have...

Via Possum, we find that Essential Research released a poll yesterday including questions about various issues, and one in particular has piked my interest. Thinking about the Government’s proposed emissions trading scheme (called the carbon pollution reduction scheme) to address climate change by which the...

A few bits of interesting information today: Former AFL footballer, pornstar, mayoral candidate and general Gold Coast identity Warwick Capper will be standing in the south-east seat of Beaudesert, the same electorate that Pauline Hanson will be contesting. Capper, who formerly lived in the electorate,...

Tomorrow will see the first major elections in Europe since the onset of the global economic crisis. Up to four million voters in Spain will head to the polls to elect governments in the Basque and Galicia regions. Spanish politics is fairly diverse, particularly at...

Indooroopilly is considered one of the Liberal Party's traditional Brisbane seats, and is the only seat to cross the Brisbane River, lying in Brisbane's western suburbs. The 2001 Beattie landslide saw the seat fall to the 25-year-old Ronan Lee. He managed to hold on...

You might be surprised that the political capital of the United States, Washington, DC., still lacks any representation in the US Congress, while it casts 3electoral votes in Presidential elections and the role of the Mayor and the city council are severely curtailed by...

I love reading all the psephological blogs in Australia (primarily Crikey's Poll Bludger and Possum), as well as the bits of psephological content on a bunch of broader political blogs. However, it's never enough, and I like to read psephological blogs from other English-speaking...

Today's Courier Mail carries a poll by Galaxy, giving both the ALP and LNP 50% of the two-party-preferred, with the LNP leading on 43% of the primary vote, with the ALP on 42%. The Courier Mail makes an interesting comparison with the election fourteen...