Voters Approve Redistricting Reforms in Colorado, Missouri, Michigan (and Maybe Utah, Too)
Taking redistricting power away from lawmakers isn't a foolproof strategy for ending gerrymandering, but it's probably a modest step in the right direction.
Taking redistricting power away from lawmakers isn't a foolproof strategy for ending gerrymandering, but it's probably a modest step in the right direction.
If the Space Force goes down before it ever got up on its feet, that's probably for the best.
Two-thirds of the states have now legalized marijuana for medical or recreational use.
Candidates who channeled Trump on immigration got roundly smacked.
Outcoming Gov. Jerry Brown was no gun rights advocate, but if Newsom's voting record is any indication, he's likely to be even worse.
Did voters recognize it as a green pork-barrel scheme?
Meanwhile, Fargo citizens adopt a different way to choose winners of citywide races.
Democrats can't stop her, but they can hold a lot of hearings.
The biggest shock from yesterday's midterms was that everything went more or less as expected.
To the extent that this is even a thing, it's no surprise the Democrats won it, since they won most of the seats that were up yesterday.
He's not the first dead person to win an election.
Amash and Massie will return. Michigan will have legal weed. No Nevada brothels will be banned. And more...
Running a campaign that stressed small-government values over the Libertarian Party label, the incumbent was still unable to prevail.
When it comes to predicting the outcome of an election, bettors are better.
Democrats will be able to check the worst parts of Trump's presidency in a way Republicans never would, but will otherwise be very limited.
Digging in on one winnable small-total race comes very close to paying off for Libertarian strategist Apollo Pazell.
The initiative's success is especially striking given the Mormon church's opposition.
It is the first state in the Midwest to allow nonmedical use.
But pro-Kavanaugh Joe Manchin was spared.
"Voters care more about party than literally anything else."
Amendment 4 will reverse Florida's more than 100-year-old law disenfranchising felons, a vestige of the state's racist "Black Codes."
The initiative lost by a big margin in a state that approved medical use two years ago.
Patients with doctors' recommendations will be allowed to grow their own medicine or buy it from state-licensed dispensaries.
The progressive wunderkind will bring to Washington an ambitious, expensive policy agenda.
Amash and Massie are both members of the House Liberty Caucus and provide some of the few Congressional glimmers of hope for libertarians.
The difference between exercising one's 2nd Amendment right and "looking very threatening and intimidating."
The race that 2018 deserved.
Wisconsin, Georgia, and even Alaska are among the 8 states where Libertarian candidates are polling more than the margin between Republicans and Democrats
You certainly didn't ask to see these three again on a presidential debate stage.
It's unorthodox, but it makes sense.
Tariffs and anti-free trade policies are not rising up from the democratic process but being created by the political class.
Values are important. But so is factual knowledge about public policy. In some ways, the significance of values actually makes the problem of voter ignorance more pressing, not less so.
L.P. contenders in Indiana, Nevada, and Missouri are beating the spread between Democrats and Republicans. Gary Johnson is right behind them.
Plus: Russian bots still stirring election fears and social media growth in U.S. is flat.
It is not yet clear who will win. But widespread political ignorance already ensures many of us will be losers.
Banning ballot selfies to stop voter fraud is like "burning down the house to roast the pig" said the First Circuit Court of Appeals. But many states still do it.
Polling uncertainty and a surge in voter enthusiasm could make tomorrow an embarrassing day for many in the political class.
We'll trust teenagers with decisions about how to run the country, but not how to run their own lives.
Clint Bolick faces a judicial retention fight.
Democrats are expected to take the House majority, but will libertarian-friendly Republicans like Thomas Massie and Justin Amash keep their seats?
Prop. 10 would give cities free reign to reimpose rent control.
Trump is a uniquely awful president who has changed the entire political conversation and not for the better
Plus: midterm marijuana initiatives and conditioning gun rights on Twitter civility.
Social media execs did themselves no favors by becoming so closely identified with the Democratic Party.
Two other Republican incumbents in the Midwest could also be in trouble. And Stacey Abrams could become America's first black female governor.
Two new surveys this week show the Libertarian fading fast in New Mexico, though his overall polling average remains at 17%.