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If your money is on the line you might be a bit more careful. - Betfair . - PredictIt . - Hypermind .

As many as 50 million people may have voted early, and since this has become increasingly commonplace, it has altered campaign tactics - as...

I thought this would be appropriate to discuss today - no matter who wins the presidency, they will be saddled with all the promises they ma...

Some - not all - Republican Senators promise to block all nomination to the court if Clinton wins. - ScotusBlog offers the following thought...

The previous post referred to it. Here's background. - Wikipedia: Fair Housing Act . The Fair Housing Act is a federal act in the Uni...

The Supreme Court. I might be making too much of this, but they always seem to argue cases on election day. I take it as a sign that they pr...

Another reason voter turnout tends to be low in the state. And another consequence of Shelby v Holder. - Click here for the article . ...

- Click here for state measures . In 2016, 162 statewide ballot measures have been certified for the ballot in 35 states . Of these measur...

If elections are indeed rigged, this might be why. - Click here for the article . Big-money corporate lobbying has reached into one of the...

Since questions have been raised about the integrity of the electoral process, it might be appropriate to look at the views different groups...

An inside look at how Democrats at the national level tried to target vulnerable Republicans in the U.S. House and possible flip it. The Com...

This is from Friday - which might as well be last year - but it shows tightening in the race, but maybe mot enough to swing the race - maybe...

Are American elections really fair? More on rigged elections. - Click here for the article . As the long presidential campaign winds ...

And - as we know - its worse locally. But is this deliberate? And note that old folks do vote - and that matters. - Click here for the artic...

I can relate - you get paid about $11 an hour to run an election. Less if you aren't the election judge. But at ;east the hours are long...

I can relate - you get paid about $11 an hour to run an election. Less if you aren't the election judge. But at ;east the hours are long...

The internal struggle continues. Little has been written about what happens to Democrats - I'll post what I find soon - and if this play...

For our look at the 4th amendment, and privacy - among other things. You are never not monitored, but neither are criminals. - Click here fo...

The court has decided to take up the case involving the transgender student in Virginia, but will not concern itself with equal protection i...

School funding promises to be a dominant issue during the next regular session. A special session would take some pressure off. - Click her...

Make sense to me. - Click here for the article . Texans are split on whether to subject American Muslims to greater scrutiny than citizen...

For our discussion today. - Click here for the article . More than a quarter of the Food and Drug Administration employees who approved c...

For our look at interest groups and iron triangles. - Click here for the article . For nearly a decade, veteran Democratic Rep. Peter Wel...

Because it seems suddenly appropriate. - Click here for it . For everything you could possibly want to know about the organization of t...

The Attorney General is the FBI director's boss. The author suggests that she may bear some responsibility for recent events. - Click he...

Not that many Blue Dog Democrats can be found anymore - these were brought in one of my classes recently. This is one of the last of a dying...

I'll hunt around for more on the FBI's protocol involving elections. - Click here for the article . . . . the Justice Department —...

In case you need it - I do. - Click here for the article . Yesterday, FBI Director James Comey threw the presidential election campaign in...

We discussed the Hatch Act in the section on campaign finance. - Click here for the article . Congress passed the Hatch Act in response t...

The latest. - Click here for the article . On Friday, FBI Director James Comey sent a three-paragraph letter to several members of Cong...

More - expected - conflict between Texas and the U.S. - Click here for the article. Ratcheting up pressure on the all-Republican Texas Sup...

This happened much quicker than I thought it would. - Click here for the article . The Supreme Court said Friday that it will decide whethe...

Yet another October surprise. - Click here for the article . The presidential campaign was rocked on Friday after federal law enforcement ...

While the chances that Democrats win the majority of House seats has increased, it's still unlikely./ Here's analysis. - Click here ...

No one is predicting a Clinton victory, but the race is tighter than it would normally be. We would not be having this conversation if Senat...

This supplements recent conversations we've been having about what drives people to vote. It also suggests that Trump's success will...

The list includes the Republican now holding Texas' only competitive congressional district. - Click here for the article . Three H...

Winner-take-all elections are brutal for minor parties. - Click here for the article . Johnson’s decline isn’t shocking. Third-party candi...