Tag: elections
The 2020 elections for the Kansas legislature could be perilous for moderate Republicans. Their political relevance is at stake, with huge implications for Kansas politics. Most “moderate” Republican lawmakers in Topeka are actually pretty conservative.…
What the country needs right now is a plan. Actually it needs lots of plans for how things are going to work if COVID-19 sticks around for months or more. What are we going to…
Election officials in an Illinois county are encouraging poll workers to use blue painter’s tape to mark the floor every 6 feet so voters can keep their distance while waiting in line because of the…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans have widespread concerns about the security and integrity of elections, with few saying they have high confidence that votes in the 2020 presidential election will be counted accurately. A poll from…
It’s tempting to label elections as “the most important” in decades, our lifetime, etc. Sometimes, as Kansans discovered in 2010, 2016, and 2018, elections do have real consequences. Moreover, nationally, the 2020 prospect of re-electing…
Ever since Donald Trump was elected President, many of us have held out hope he would rise to the occasion. That he would use the position to further causes benefiting both the U.S. and our…
WASHINGTON Off-year election results in three key states Pennsylvania, Virginia and Kentucky serve as a flashing red warning light for Republicans worried that President Donald Trumps deep unpopularity outside rural areas may…
While the vote suggested otherwise, Iola Mayor Jon Wells insisted Tuesday his decisive re-election bid was anything but easy. It looks easy at the end, he said, but we fought hard. Wells counted the number…
LONDON (AP) Britains five-week election campaign officially began today, when Parliament was dissolved ahead of the Dec. 12 vote. Heres a look at some key numbers in an election that could determine not only…
More than 130 Allen Countians have voted in advance of Tuesdays city and school board elections across the county. The election for a number of city and school board races is Tuesday. Advance voting can…
