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Three months out, Biden looking good

Both national and state-by-state polling in the US are telling the same story: the Democrats have a clear lead, and if it holds up then regional differences won't matter.

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Twilight of the independents

A delayed and easy-to-miss election in Tasmania results in the independents being reduced to a minority in the upper house for the first time.

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Charles Richardson Australia, Elections, Electoral law 10 Comments 4 August 202012 August 2020

From “Never Trump” to Lincoln Project

Trump's opponents within the Republican Party seem to be increasing not just in number, but also in their willingness to indict the party as a whole for how things have turned out.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Party matters, Political issues, United States 9 Comments 3 August 2020

Death of a contender

Black conservative Herman Cain, once a proto-Trumpist presidential candidate, succumbs to the coronavirus. Perhaps it will be a wake-up call to some other Republicans.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Party matters, Personalities, Political issues, United States 4 Comments 31 July 202026 January 2022

No convention for Florida

Donald Trump and the Republicans bow to the coronavirus inevitable and decide to call off their old-style convention. It's not clear that it would have helped them much anyway.

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A new roadblock in Bolivia

The health crisis threatens another postponement of the election that is supposed to return Bolivia to democracy.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Latin America 1 Comment 23 July 2020

Incumbents do well in the Balkans

Elections in Croatia and North Macedonia show good results for incumbent governments, but both will depend on allies to reach a majority.

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Close shaves for two autocracies

Results from Singapore and Poland show authoritarian regimes hanging on, but not without difficulty. The big question is how they will react to near-defeat.

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One cheer for Singapore

Singapore's election will, as usual, not really be an exercise in democracy. But this year the example of Hong Kong reminds us that things could be a lot worse.

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Oh, all right then: Eden-Monaro

By-elections rarely produce interesting results, and last week's in Eden-Monaro was no exception. A quick explanation for the lack of surprise.

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