The Sir Robert Bond Papers

These days campaigns are about collecting information on voters and using the data. The Ted Cruz campaign has been especially aggressive ...

The next provincial general election finishes on November 30, 2015. Not the way you are used to thinking of it, right? You think the ele...

There is a new scourge among us. An evil that causes “problems”. Russell Wangersky found them and wrote about them this past weekend. ...

Two posts, quite a distance apart touch on the same basic political (science) issue:  the role of the local, get-out-the-vote effort in any ...

In looking at by-elections in Newfoundland and Labrador, the second and third phases offer a neat cluster of by-elections in urban (metro St...

Two of the three political parties in this province are spending more, on average, and getting less, on average in by-elections. That’s on...

Heard that before, right? And it’s true. Just because it is true - and most adults know it is true – doesn’t mean that all of them still...

As we slide into the fall general election’s open campaign period, some of you might find it interesting to ponder Jay Rosen’s recent post a...

The only funnier thing than a guy up on assault charges claiming he is a wannabe Tory candidate are opposition party politicos who campaign ...

In an announcement that had absolutely no ties whatsoever to the current election campaign, the provincial government today tossed $5.0 mill...

Texas governor Rick Perry won re-election without relying on conventional news media. Perry shunned editorial board meetings, for example....

A piece this week in the Hill Times this week conjures up images of a West Wing episode. The night of Jed Bartlet’s re-election, some guy t...

In Newfoundland and Labrador these past few days some local adherents of the Orange Creed – that’s New Democrats, not Protestants or Dutch –...

Telegram editor Russell Wangersky points out in his column this week that local political campaigns suffer from an obvious lack of new idea...

The Obama campaign has transformed American politics already and there's still almost a week to go until it's over. One of the man...

There's no allowing for the myriad reason why people feel the need to make stuff up, nor that they would use this false stuff for their ...

1. In the cause for electoral reform or political reform or some kind of reform: another riding taken by a party already in dictatorship t...

Geoff Meeker raised a question this past week about the nature of election campaigns and media coverage. Specifically, Geoff took some exc...