John Kasich (D-OH)
John Kasich and other Repulibcans endorsing Joe Biden are Democrats, they just don’t realize it yet
Electoral Reform: Coalitional Cooperation, Not Combat
Electoral reform is one of those weird subjects in Canadian politics, especially since 2015 when Justin Trudeau promised to end the 'First Past The Post' system of voting and make 2015 the last election under that system. Suffice to say, that never came to fruition...
Dead, Buried, and Pointless – A Brief History of the Western Canadian Concept
What’s old is new and what’s new will soon be old again. Such is the story of most separatist political parties throughout history, of which only a handful have ever been successful in their ultimate...
America Needs Electoral Reform: Ranked Choice Voting
Ranked Choice Voting certainly isn’t my first pick if I was given the choice of unilaterally changing a country’s method of voting, but for the United States I think it’s best. America, much like the United Kingdom and Canada, has a broken was of electing its...
CPC Leadership: Quebec Is Key
If I told you that the next Conservative leader will need to lean heavily into Quebec if they want to win, would you believe me? Well, very simply, it’s true, insofar as the August 21st Conservative leadership contest is concerned. While not top of mind right now for...
New Zealand National Party Leadership Spill Liveblog
LeanTossup Ratings: Forget The Map, Let’s Talk Texas
Everybody seems to have a prediction for an election so far away under circumstances we can't fully imagine. Whatever map or prediction I construct can be irrelevant a week or month from now. Furthermore, what I personally think is really of no value to you in this...
LeanTossup Ratings: A More Reserved Approach
Kyle's May 2020 Predictions for November, Biden v Trump It’s the year 2016. We’re still several months out from a major and consequential national election, and the primaries of the two major parties are on-going but very much locked in. Up against each other are two...
LeanTossup Ratings: Trust The Model
Many people ask me how I feel what the actual results will be on November 3rd. Even though we have a model which is updated several times a week, it is still good to talk about how we actually expect each state to fall in the election. So, for this theme week, let’s...
An Essential Key To Fighting Climate Change: Nuclear
The world is facing a climate crisis the likes we have never seen before, so it’s unsurprising that we should be looking at every available tool in our arsenal to curb our emissions. When it comes to power production, those in the fight against the climate crisis have...