Despite an effort by a group called Fair Boundaries, Utah will not reform its redistricting process before the 2011 cycle. The Fair Boundaries group tried to put a redistricting reform initiative on the 2010 ballot that, if it had been approved, would have reformed redistricting on the congressional, state legislative, and school board levels in [...]
As reported by the Los Angeles Times on April 12th, entertainment executive and major Democratic party donor Haim Saban recently donated $2 million to the “Yes on Fair” initiative, a political advocacy group led by Representative Howard Berman that wants to overturn Proposition 11. Proposition 11 was passed by California voters in 2008 and created [...]
In a recent Congressional Quarterly column on 2001 and future 2011 congressional redistricting, Bob Benenson wrote about how 2010 gubernatorial elections can determine and change the partisan makeup of a particular state’s members of Congress for the next ten years. Maryland’s 2010 gubernatorial election and 2011 redistricting provide a vivid example of the impact of [...]
The Census Bureau now provides a running total of the 2011 participation rates so far for states, counties, tribal reservations, and cities. The website also shows the participation rate* of each jurisdiction so far, with a comparison to its final 2000 Census participation rate. The data changes dramatically everyday as more census forms are returned.
Former Virginia Democratic nominee for Governor, State Senator Creigh Deeds, has been very actively promoting a bill in the Virginia Senate that would reform the process for redistricting in Virginia. The official summary of his bill (SB 173) reads:
Establishes a seven-member temporary commission to prepare redistricting plans in 2011 and each tenth year thereafter for [...]
All congressional campaigns in California recently had to submit end of year fundraising reports to the Federal Election Commission. Election 2010 is now less than a year away, and these most recent fundraising numbers help show which challenger candidates are serious competitors and which ones simply are not. Following up our previous post on third [...]
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