Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College..

Beer soothes the upset soul..

Further-more, partisan attachments powerfully shape political perceptions, beliefs and values, and incumbents enjoy advantages well beyond the way in….

The public's evaluation of the job George W. Bush is doing as president changed dramatically as a result of the horrific attacks of September 11 and ….

A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisan warfare..

With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high..

In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major polit….

Redistricting is a deeply political process, with incumbents actively seeking to minimize the risk to themselves (via bipartisan gerrymanders) or to ….

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought..

Congress requires states to draw single-member districts..

You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, and systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mast….

A human being tends to believe that the mood of the moment, be it troubled or blithe, peaceful or stormy, is the true, native, and permanent tenor of….

But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism..

Science never makes an advance until philosophy authorizes it to do so..

Knowledge of the soul would unfailingly make us melancholy if the pleasures of expression did not keep us alert and of good cheer..

Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election o….

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate..

All of this suggests that while citizens became more comfortable with President Bush after September 11 and thought him to have the requisite leaders….

Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with no uniform ballots and few national standards..

Some of necessities go astray, because for them there is no such thing as a right path..

In the House, Republican prospects have been buoyed by several successful rounds of redistricting, which have sharply reduced the number of competiti….