electoral college

The GOP’s election-stealing plot: By the numbers

Last weekend the Michigan Republican Party voted, by a 1,370-132 margin, in support of a plan to change the way Michigan’s electoral votes are doled out. Rather than the winner-takes-all system that Michigan has always known, rather than a proportional system that gives each candidate the votes they earned, and no more, as The Detroit … Continue Reading →

Skywalker in Wisconsin

It wasn’t even close.  Gov. Scott Walker holds off Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett by somewhere near 11 points (at last check), but yet polls indicate President Obama holds Wisconsin lean blue.  After this election, things may change. Is there something wrong with exit polls?  At first, CNN and other news groups reported that there was … Continue Reading →