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Monday, February 11th, 2008

Huckabee Slams WA Caucus; NM Still Undecided

LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT — I’m sitting at LAX getting ready to bring the Why Tuesday? road show back to New York City. We’ve got some cool stuff planned in the days ahead so stay tuned. Meanwhile, in elections land… (more…)

Monday, October 29th, 2007

Candidate Challenge: Bill Richardson

This just in from the Bill Richardson camp: a response to the Why Tuesday? Candidate Challenge! I’m sitting in the rafters of a theater at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, IA liveblogging the MTV/MySpace presidential forum with Barack Obama, as I type this. So you all are actually hearing Governor Richardson’s response to the challenge before I do. (more…)

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

Election reform roundup

The latest in election reform news, including high marks for New Mexico’s voting system (and low marks for California), a New York Times editorial, and talk about primaries on PBS is after the jump.
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Monday, August 13th, 2007

Election reform chatter

There has been lots of chatter about election reform over the last week or so, including calls for reform in Kentucky, a call to action for New Mexican Native Americans, and problems with voting machines at last weekend’s Iowa Straw Poll. My attempt at digesting it all (and a great cartoon) is after the jump.
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