Elections and Voting
June 6, 2008 -
The Daily Yonder, blog of the Center for Rural Strategies, has an interesting post about how Sen. Obama won the Democratic presidential nomination. In short: The urban South is what gave Obama his national primary victory.
June 4, 2008 -
Facing South has written extensively about whether the South will be in play for the 2008 presidential elections (for example, here). With Obama now the Democratic nominee, the question is no longer academic: can this once-solid stronghold for Republicans became contested terrain?
June 3, 2008 -
As the white-knuckle roller-coaster ride of the 2008 Democratic primary finally coasts to a stop, The New York Times offers a neat graphic display of how the voting unfolded in each state.
May 30, 2008 -
* A Newsweek poll looks at the role of race in the 2008 elections.
May 30, 2008 -
William Loren Katz Guest blogger
May 29, 2008 -
Facing South has written extensively about the South's growing clout in national politics -- for example, the fact that the South will gain up
May 20, 2008 -
Today, Kentuckians hit the polls for the final Southern primary in the 2008 election season. Sen.