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9:02 AM, Sep 23, 2011 • By JEFFREY H. ANDERSON

When Mitt Romney answered a question about Romneycare during last night’s GOP debate, it unfortunately sounded like he was defending Obamacare.

4:12 PM, Sep 14, 2011 • By JEFFREY H. ANDERSON

As John McCormack reports, some leading Pennsylvania Republicans are apparently flirting with the idea of changing the state’s method of allocating electoral votes from the usual winner-take-all method—the norm since the American Founding—to a method of allocating one electoral vote for each congressional district (with the remaining two votes going to the statewide winner). For a variety of reasons, this idea doesn’t deserve to get off the ground.

8:15 AM, Aug 9, 2011 • By JOSEPH BOTTUM

On Monday, August 8, Governor Jerry Brown finally signed a bill the California state legislature had passed in July—a bill that binds California to “National Popular Vote” (NPV). Which is to say, to the committing of all its electoral college votes in a presidential election to the winner of the nation’s popular vote. In other words, regardless of which candidate carried California, the electors are directed to vote for the candidate who carries the nation.

Making the case against mindless tinkering.

May 16, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 33 • By KELLY JANE TORRANCE

Against Reform
by John Pepall
Toronto, 176 pp., $19.95

Canada’s Conservative party won a clear majority in last week’s federal election. So the Canadian constitution is safe, for now.

Are they now the natural governing party of Canada?

May 16, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 33 • By FRED BARNES

Who’s the most powerful conservative leader in the Americas, north and south? That may sound like a trick question, but it’s not. The answer is Stephen Harper, the Canadian prime minister who triumphed last week in an election that all but destroyed two opposition parties, the Liberals and the Bloc Québécois (BQ).

5:27 PM, Apr 5, 2011 • By MICHAEL WARREN

Yesterday, President Barack Obama announced his plans to run for reelection in 2012, 582 days before Election Day and before most major Republican opponents officially announced that they'd be entering the race. This is the earliest any incumbent president has officially signed up to run again.

11:30 AM, Mar 26, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPER

Steve Hayes, with Charles Lane and Charles Krauthammer, last night on Fox News:

Did the Copts Miscalculate in Egyptian Elections?

2:00 PM, Mar 19, 2011 • By LEE SMITH

Cairo -- Polling places are packed today as Egyptians are casting their votes to ratify six amendments to the country’s constitution in what may be Egypt’s freest and fairest election ever. Because the military is running the show, penalties are stiff for voter fraud, and very few seem tempted to risk a second trip to the ballot box more than once in exchange for a 2-5 year prison sentence. Moreover, the fact that Egyptians are eager to display their sense of civic responsibility means that the lines are long and no one wants to wait to vote upwards of an hour twice.

Michigan Democratic Party Officials Charged for Electioneering

5:30 PM, Mar 17, 2011 • By MICHAEL WARREN

Two former officials from the Oakland County, Mich. Democratic Party were charged today for forgery and perjury relating to a political scheme hatched in the last election. According to the Detroit Free Press, the officials have been accused of placing Tea Party candidates on ballots without those candidates' permission by forging their signatures:

The answer may (not) surprise you.

7:20 PM, Mar 7, 2011 • By MICHAEL WARREN

The left is very upset that up to 22 states with GOP-dominated legislatures are now looking to "disenfranchise" voters they don't like for the upcoming 2012 elections. Republicans lawmakers in states like New Hampshire and Wisconsin say their proposed changes to how and where college students can register to vote are about targeting voter fraud. But why won’t the Washington Post publish any examples of fraud?

Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty has a better chance than you think.

Jan 17, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 17 • By JOHN MCCORMACK

Lessons for John Boehner from Congresses past.

Jan 17, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 17 • By JAY COST

She made a bad one in 2008.

3:12 PM, Dec 8, 2010 • By PHILIP TERZIAN

For me, the great political mystery of the last two years is not what makes Barack Obama tick, or where the Tea Party came from, but Hillary Clinton. Namely, why did she give up life tenure in a U.S. Senate seat from New York to join the Obama administration as secretary of state?

Why Lula’s hand-picked successor couldn’t quite close the deal.

8:50 AM, Oct 5, 2010 • By JAIME DAREMBLUM

Sunday’s presidential election results from Brazil came as a surprise. Pre-election polling had indicated that center-left Workers’ Party candidate Dilma Rousseff, the hand-picked successor of incumbent Brazilian president Lula da Silva, would win an outright majority in the first round of voting.