Like we've donemany timesbefore, 538 decided to aggregate these positions to see how often each member of Congress voted with or against Biden on these key votes. On the whole, the data painted a picture of deep partisan divides in Congress, with the outcomes of most votes hewing close...
but I think deadlines are really useful and having an election day (or even an election weekend) that means something would be better. I think lowering the voting age is a ridiculous idea. Our 50-year-old experiment with democratizing candidate...
Without checks and balances, one branch of a government or organization can grow too powerful. In the U.S., three branches of the federal government effectively have a set of checks and balances: the legislative branch as Congress (the House of Representatives and the Senate), the Supreme Cou...
but for a slate of electors who are pledged to support one of the presidential candidates in a later vote. Voters can cast their ballots on or before Nov. 3, but voting stops when polls close. States then can count the votes.
The former South Carolina governor also won among those voting in a Republican primary for the first time and among those who made up their minds in the final weeks of the campaign. Both of these groups comprised relatively small shares of the GOP electorate in South Carolina. ...
Super Tuesday is thebiggest voting dayof the 2024 presidential election, and Trump comes into it with victories in all but one of the Republican contests held so far — Haleynotched a winin the District of Columbia's primary on Sunday— and a commanding lead in the delegate race. ...
Can members of Congress not muster a stand on modern slavery? (Hmm. I now understand better the results of a new survey from Public Policy Polling showing that Congress, with 9 percent approval, is less popular than cockroaches, traffic jams, lice or Genghis Khan.) We can’t let Congress...
Statistics helps us to understand the data that is collected about us and the world. For example, the UPS database is 17 terabytes — about as large as a database containing every book in the Library of Congress [1]. All of that data is meaningless without a way to interpret it, which...
(Downs2011; Piwoni2015), which was heavily scrutinised in the party congress (Lißmann2010; SPD2010). However, Sarrazin also had his fair share of supporters from the German public and among party members (Mitra2022; Der Spiegel2010), and the SPD party leadership, although critical of ...
Under a federal law known as the Uniformed and Overseas Citizen Absentee Voting Act, or UOCAVA,, Americans who live abroad may vote absentee in their state of prior residence. The law affects millions of Americans, including many members of the military and their relatives. ...