[Update and correction] I have taken down my post analyzing Frank Corbett's near defeat in Cape Breton Centre, because I had the turnout percentage in his riding wrong. Since this was the key data point on which my analysis hinged, it no longer holds up. I am on the road all day today, but I will have a second look at the numbers first chance I get. If anything useful turns up, I will put up an amended post. Apologies to Frank and to the electors of Cape Breton Centre for my error, and many thanks to Contrarian reader Rob Spencer...

10 October, 2013

The youth wing of the Catalan Socialist Party has a vivid take on the pleasures of voting: Via Salon's Tracy Clark-Flory, who reports that other Spanish political parties were not amused, calling the get-out-the-vote spot "crude," "misleading," "filth," and "as attack on the dignity of women."...

21 November, 2010

… The Nova Scotia Green Party gets all double-entendre with this YouTube ad combating "Electoral Dysfunction." Given the craven, focus group-driven campaigns by the three biggies, it's tempting. Damn tempting....

03 June, 2009