US presidential vote numbers 2000-2016 in one chart
15 Nov 2016 Leave a comment
Sometimes a picture (or a data table) does say more than a thousand words. Regardless of how you feel at the outcome, have a dispassionate look at this graph:
Data for 2000-2012 are from the FEC, preliminary data from 2016 from Wikipedia — the latter are subject to some change but not enough to matter at the resolution of this graph. Now focus on the stretch 2008-2016 to identify some trends:
- the GOP vote is remarkably constant over the last 3 elections
- the D vote is trending downward from the historic 2008 mark, with a sharper drop this election.
- the overall third-party vote is trending upward and increased notably this election
- overall voter participation is dropping
- From 2008 to 2016, the D party lost 8.6 million votes, while the GOP posted a small increase of 0.3 million (probably a bit more when we’ll have final numbers).
- The Libertarians, on the other hand, are…
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14 Nov 2016 Leave a comment
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Sir Edward Coke and the Bill of Rights: the royal prerogative and parliament in the seventeenth century
10 Nov 2016 Leave a comment
Last week the high court ruled on the process the government needs to follow in order to trigger article 50 and initiate Britain’s exit from the European Union. In today’s blog, Dr Robin Eagles discusses the background to the 17th century precedents the judges cited in their ruling…
Last week’s judgment by the high court that Theresa May’s government was not able to use its powers under the royal prerogative to trigger article 50 made reference to a number of historical precedents. Many of those cited were of fairly recent vintage but two referred to examples from the 17th century – a period in which the fundamental relationship between crown and parliament was disputed, fought over and codified. The first referred to Sir Edward Coke and the second to the 1689 Bill of Rights.
Edward Coke, attributed to Thomas Athow, via Wikimedia Commons
Coke (1552-1634), the brilliant yet…
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