Content Categorized with "Congressional Elections"
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The 2014 Primary Season Has Arrived
- Posted: May 13, 2014
- Categories: Congressional Elections, Home
The 2014 primary season is underway, and voters in eight states have already cast ballots that will determine winners in the 2014 midterm elections. Since 371 congressional districts are safe for one of the major parties, whichever candidate in the majority party wins their party’s nomination in those districts is going to be safely elected in November’s general election. Despite their importance, turnout has been upsettingly low in many of these primaries – sometimes as low at 16% of registered voters. It’s time for us to fix the primaries.
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FairVote and Elderhostel
- Posted: April 30, 2014
- Author(s): Drew Spencer
- Categories: Congressional Elections, Fair Voting/Proportional Representation, Events and Awards, Home, FairVote
This past Tuesday, FairVote had the opportunity to present on FairVote’s key reforms to a group of Elderhostelers (now called “Road Scholars”), on winner-take-all, polarization, partisan bias, and the fair voting solution.
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Monopoly Politics Blog Series: Hardening Partisanship in State Legislatures
- Posted: April 23, 2014
- Author(s): Matthew Bugajski, Devin McCarthy
- Categories: Congressional Elections, Home
State legislatures around the country face the same growing problems of partisanship and polarization as the House of Representatives.
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Monopoly Politics Blog Series: Reflections on Florida 13
- Posted: March 19, 2014
- Author(s): Devin McCarthy
- Categories: Congressional Elections, Home
Ignore claims about the broader implications of the special election in Florida 13 for Obamacare or the campaigning abilities of the major parties. It all came down to district partisanship.
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FairVote on the 2014 Election Season
- Posted: March 4, 2014
- Categories: Congressional Elections, Home, FairVote
Texas kicks of the 2014 election season this week with state and congressional primaries. Nationwide, every House seat, most governors and a third of U.S .Senators will be elected this November - yet only two in five eligible voters will likely participate.
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Key Facts About Texas Primary Elections on March 4
- Posted: March 4, 2014
- Categories: FairVote Reformer E-Newsletters, Congressional Elections, Home
Voter turnout has been consistently poor in recent elections, particularly in primaries. In the 2012 primaries, Texas turnout was a dismally low 16% of registered voters. We can reverse that trend by taking it upon ourselves to vote. Texas’s congressional and state primaries tomorrow are a good place to start.
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Would Frank Underwood still have been in office in 2013? No, probably not.
- Posted: February 27, 2014
- Author(s): Andrea Levien
- Categories: Congressional Elections, Home
Netflix's House of Cards can leave viewers with a lot of questions. One we've been asking at FairVote is, "How on earth is Frank Underwood, a white Southern Democrat, still in office in 2013?"
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Redistricting Reform in the South
- Posted: February 21, 2014
- Author(s): Devin McCarthy , Christopher Zieja
- Categories: Congressional Elections, Fair Voting/Proportional Representation, Home, Redistricting
Nowhere in the United States are the pernicious effects of gerrymandering and winner-take-all, single-member districts more clearly visible than in the South. In the line of states running from Louisiana to Virginia, congressional races are nearly universally uncompetitive, Democrats are systematically disadvantaged, and African Americans are underrepresented in spite of the Voting Rights Act.
Through the use of sample maps, this report examines the impact that different redistricting criteria would have on partisan and racial representation in the South.
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Did the California Citizens Redistricting Commission Really Create More Competitive Districts?
- Posted: November 26, 2013
- Author(s): Devin McCarthy
- Categories: Congressional Elections, Fair Voting/Proportional Representation, Home, Redistricting
California's independent redistricting process ousted a lot of incumbents in 2012, but that competitiveness is unlikely to persist in 2014.
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Monopoly Politics 2014 and the Fair Voting Solution
- Posted: November 7, 2013
- Categories: Fair Voting/Proportional Representation, Congressional Elections, Home
FairVote's Monopoly Politics 2014 and the Fair Voting Solution report includes projections for every district in the country in the 2014 midterm House elections, in-depth analysis of the problems with American congressional elections as they are, and our 50-state plan for electing Congress under a fair representation voting system that could be enacted by Congress.