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The "MyBarackObama" Experiment
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Michael Cornfield,
The Century Foundation,
7/1/2008
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Have you heard? The Obama campaign has set up a web site to empower its supporters to combat false information circulating about the candidate and his wife. This promises to shed light on the PR conundrum as to whether publicity douses misinformation or sends it rocketing onward.Continue Reading on the Taking Note Blog.
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Welcome
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ReformElections.org is The Century Foundation's informational Web site
on election reform. Here you'll find:
Learn more about the Foundation's work on election reform here.
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Opening Up the Primary Gates
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Tova Andrea Wang,
The Century Foundation,
3/17/2008
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In the midst of this microscopically scrutinized primary campaign, there have been lots of stories about the impact “independent voters” have had on contests in states that have “open primaries,” in which unaffiliated voters (and sometimes members of another party) are allowed to cast a ballot.
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Provisional Ballots May Be the Hanging Chad of ’08
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Tova Andrea Wang,
Edward Foley,
The Hill,
2/28/2008
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Although New Mexicans cast their vote on Super Tuesday, the race was not called until 10 days later. The contest between Sens. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Barack Obama (D-Ill.) was painfully close, and there were an astonishing 17,000 provisional ballots cast that had to be counted by hand—about 12 percent of the total number of votes cast.
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New Media, New Voters: The Global Primary
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Tova Andrea Wang,
The Century Foundation,
2/27/2008
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Lost in all the hullabaloo about Super Tuesday, then the Potomac Primary, and now “Mini Tuesday” on March 4, is the extraordinary experiment in online voting conducted by Democrats Abroad. Although the voting took place from February 5 to February 12, the organization just recently reported the results, and they were impressive.
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New Media, New Voters: Online Small Donors and the Future of Democratic Politics
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Michael Cornfield,
The Century Foundation,
2/21/2008
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The financial disclosure reports of the presidential candidates for the year 2007 and January 2008 contain important news for the professional political community: online small donors have arrived in force. After a decade of brilliant flashes, including, most recently, the “money bomb,” millions sent to Ron Paul, internet fundraising has been turned into a steady flame. In 2008,Barack Obama’s campaign received more than one million dollars every day, from a network of givers about to welcome its one millionth member.
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The Democratic Superdelegate Mess
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Tova Andrea Wang,
The Century Foundation,
2/12/2008
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As has been widely fretted over in the press, it is possible that the Democratic nomination race is so close that it will be determined by 800 “superdelegates.” What makes this troubling beyond the principles of popular democracy at stake is that the whole superdelegate process is utterly lacking in transparency.
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Democracy and the Superdelegates
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Tova Andrea Wang,
The Century Foundation,
2/5/2008
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If the political prognosticators are right, after today’s big vote we could see a protracted battle in the Democratic race in which every last delegate will matter for a candidate to secure the nomination. If the delegate contest continues right up to the end, that could be a problem from a voting rights perspective.
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Super Tuesday…and Wednesday, and Thursday…
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Tova Andrea Wang,
The Century Foundation,
2/5/2008
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With voters in 24 states choosing candidates today there are bound to be some problems that arise at the polls. However, many of the biggest problems will not be revealed until well after the polls close tonight. Given the appetite of the press and the public to know as much as possible instantly and then move on to the next event, many of the issues that arise may get swept from public attention.
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New Media, New Voters: Mining the Absentee Vote
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Tova Andrea Wang,
The Century Foundation,
1/31/2008
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Early voting by mail, despite its drawbacks (easier fraud, voters not becoming fully informed before selecting candidates, the inability to correct a ballot if it has been filled out with any error or omission, and so on), is growing exponentially and will likely continue to do so.
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Blacks and Hispanics in the 2008 Nomination Contest
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Ruy Teixeira,
The Century Foundation,
1/23/2008
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In the Nevada caucuses, Hillary Clinton won the Hispanic vote, 64 percent to 26 percent, over Barack Obama, while Obama won the black vote, 83 percent to 15 percent, over Clinton. This stark differential in candidate preferences among America’s two largest minority groups is the culmination of a trend that has been emerging for some time.
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Taking a Gamble on the Latino Vote: The Nevada Caucus Series
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Tova Andrea Wang,
The Century Foundation,
1/22/2008
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Saturday, January 19, was a historic day. For the first time in American history, Latinos had a major voice in picking the presidential nominees. For the first time, the state of Nevada held an early and therefore influential caucus. TCF's Democracy Fellow, Tova Andrea Wang, traveled to the state to provide first-hand accounts of the efforts there to reach out to the Latino community and get them to participate by the Democratic Party, the unions, and outside organizations. See the series' articles below.
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