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New Vote Tally Could Bypass Electoral College in 2012
Over the last three years, lawmakers in at least one state legislature chamber of sixteen states have adopted a new voting system that would circumvent the Electoral College and instead award the presidency to the candidate that receives a majority of the national popular vote.
The system, known as the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, calls for states to agree to give their electoral votes to the winner of the popular vote nationwide. However, the contract would not be effective until the states that have joined the Compact represent at least 270 electoral votes between them, at which point their voting bloc would exclusively be capable of choosing the next president.
While the Compact is far away from its stated goal, to overthrow the Electoral College, its increasing prominence and its place in discussion in state capitols nationwide are drawing attention across the political spectrum.
Four states have already signed into law these …
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Obama’s “Overseas Contingency Operations”
In some ways, President Obama’s military plans for Afghanistan and Pakistan appear to provide the potential to deliver significant change. The most obvious change is that American forces will again focus on the Taliban and return the fight against al-Qaida to its backyard. Planning with consideration of economic and personnel constraints, the new administration’s goal is not necessarily to revolutionize the Afghan government but to “dismantle” the major terrorist threats in both nations.
Friday’s announcement of the new policy explicitly included the expectations that future plans would depend heavily on potential successes and failures that have yet to take place, and a promise from Obama to “not blindly stay the course.”
However, the continued push to replace mentions of the “Global War on Terror” with “Overseas Contingency Operation,” whether a departmental decree from the Office of Management and Budget or not, looks at first glance less like an …
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Obama's "Overseas Contingency Operations"
In some ways, President Obama’s military plans for Afghanistan and Pakistan appear to provide the potential to deliver significant change. The most obvious change is that American forces will again focus on the Taliban and return the fight against al-Qaida to its backyard. Planning with consideration of economic and personnel constraints, the new administration’s goal is not necessarily to revolutionize the Afghan government but to “dismantle” the major terrorist threats in both nations.
Friday’s announcement of the new policy explicitly included the expectations that future plans would depend heavily on potential successes and failures that have yet to take place, and a promise from Obama to “not blindly stay the course.”
However, the continued push to replace mentions of the “Global War on Terror” with “Overseas Contingency Operation,” whether a departmental decree from the Office of Management and Budget or not, looks at first glance less like an …
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Elder Sununu leads New Hampshire GOP towards 2010 and 2012
Two months after New Hampshire’s Republican Party was swept in races for president, governor, senator and both of the state’s representatives in Congress, the Party unanimously selected former Gov. John H. Sununu as its new chairman. Sununu, who was governor from 1983-1989, is holding his first prominent political role since spending three years as White House chief of staff under George H.W. Bush.
Sununu, 69, is returning to an active role in New Hampshire politics months after his son, former Sen. John E. Sununu, lost his re-election bid to former Gov. Jeanne Shaheen. He inherits a 10-seat deficit in the State Senate and a 55-seat deficit in the State House.
New Hampshire Republicans will be looking to former Gov. John H. Sununu to revitalize the GOP in their state
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Renovating the GOP’s Tech Arsenal
Technology website Ars Technica had a solid article earlier this week on this year’s national GOP Tech Summit, which took place in Washington, D.C. on February 13. The event, which was announced only four days in advance, attracted a plethora of strategists and online entrepreneurs seeking to provide some technological inspiration for the Republican Party. New party chairman Michael Steele asserted at the conference that members of the party would have to be willing to try ideas that have previously been untested and could not defend current methods simply by the notion that they have been the status quo.
Recently, Dartmouth College government professor Linda Fowler suggested to Scoop44 that, after having been “used to being the technological leaders and innovators,” the GOP was “caught flat-footed” during the 2008 election. The Washington Post detailed how Barack Obama used the Internet to his advantage for fundraising …
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