Elections and Voting

July 23, 2007 - Former Georgia Rep. Newt Gingrich (R) has admitted to one reason he's vacillating about entering the 2008 presidential contest: the possibility that fellow Southerner Sen. Fred Thompson from Tennessee will throw his hat in the ring. The AP reports:

July 19, 2007 - Today the Institute released the findings of our first-ever regional analysis of 2008 presidential campaign contributions. We found that the top five Democratic and top five Republican campaigns have collected over $45 million from the South.

July 19, 2007 - The presidential money race is well under way, and moving faster than ever. According to campaign finance data released July 15, White House hopefuls are smashing all fundraising records, collecting over $265 million in contributions in the first six months of 2007 alone.

July 16, 2007 - Former Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.) still gets ribbing for his $175 haircuts. But when it comes to illustrating the disconnect between Edwards' man-of-the-people rhetoric and his actions, the designer 'dos aren't the worst of it.

July 12, 2007 - After weeks of delays and detours -- and attempts by some to derail the legislation with false alarms about "voter fraud" - the North Carolina legislature yesterday finally OK'd a major election reform: "s

July 11, 2007 - With the McCain campaign circling the drain, there is speculation that Thompson's announcement, which earlier rumors said would happen on the 4th of July, may have been delayed t

July 6, 2007 - The New Orleans-based group Advocates for Environmental Human Rights is not happy with remarks about Gulf Coast rebuilding that Sens. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) made at this week's Essence Music Festival in that city.