Content Tagged with "International Right to Vote"
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FairVote Announces Inaugural Democracy Innovator Awards
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Why is My D Voting Like an R?
- Posted: July 5, 2007
- Categories: FairVote
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Party label does not always determine how a member of Congress will vote on a controversial hot-button issue, but when the party line is breached there is usually a compelling reason. While there can be myriad reasons a legislator votes one way or another, there is a strong correlation between lawmakers who vote against the party line on a divisive issue and the partisanship of the state or district they represent. (State or district partisanship is determined, for our purposes, by the share of votes won by a party’s presidential nominee. A state like Alabama, for example, has a 61.6% Republican state partisanship because that is the percentage won by President Bush in 2004.)
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Minnesota's Secretary of State Unveils FairVote-Backed Legislative Agenda
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New Orleans to Hold First Post-Katrina Elections