Jeff Johnson explains the run-down on this past Tuesday’s local elections. Plus, he points out a major victory for blacks when a black Republican woman named…

In a dramatic illustration of democracy in action, Barack Obama on Tuesday told the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia that he would love to…

“Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this…

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Why more people need to know about the Supreme Court’s recent decision that will allow unlimited money to be poured into elections and what we…

Data journalist Nate Silver predicted the 2012 Presidential outcomes in every state. Now he says the Republican Party has a good chance to take back…

In the 2008 Presidential election, 65% of African-Americans that were eligible to vote exercised that right.  Approximately 46 million Americans between the ages of 18…