I don’t mean literal pork, of course, but the political kind. A bill has passed the California state legislature that would establish a program of electric vehicle manufacturing jobs specifical...
https://fruitsandvotes.wordpress.com/2024/09/06/is-pork-healthy-when-tinged-green/
Tim Walz, the Democratic candidate for US Vice President, made a highly incoherent–even embarrassing–statement in an interview with a media outlet in Michigan. It started off well enough. Wel...
https://fruitsandvotes.wordpress.com/2024/09/06/walz-not-making-sense/
The New Democratic Party has ended its supply and confidence deal with the Liberal minority cabinet and PM Justin Trudeau. While Canada’s Westminster parliamentary form of government means that...
https://fruitsandvotes.wordpress.com/2024/09/04/canada-ndp-ending-support-deal-with-liberals/
These claims are in tension. Choose one.
On 1 September, two German states will hold elections: Saxony and Thuringia. Both states are in the east (Saxony’s capital is Dresden, Thuringia’s is Erfurt). State elections in Germany are o...
https://fruitsandvotes.wordpress.com/2024/08/30/german-state-elections-1-sept-2024/
The process is basically playing out the way I suggested it would in my last post on the topic
https://fruitsandvotes.wordpress.com/2024/08/30/france-macron-rules-out-naming-left-wing-pm/
What's in a name? West Bank. Judea and Samaria. I actually use both names, depending on context.
Not all the results of the March report are internally consistent. It makes me wonder how much some of the other results, in addition to the one on support for the Oct. 7th attacks, might have be...
https://fruitsandvotes.wordpress.com/2024/08/29/palestinian-poll-results-falsified-in-gaza/
Norway will now have a system that is both simpler and (marginally) more proportional.
https://fruitsandvotes.wordpress.com/2024/08/22/norway-electoral-reform/
A major disadvantage of the “top-two” system California now uses to elect most of its officeholders is that a large candidate field can result in a coordination failure, defined as a situatio...