Elections

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Supporting nonpartisan civic engagement work is both necessary- and legal!  De-mystify the rules for funding voter registration, education and ballot campaigns with FCCP’s indispensible and updated guide for grantmakers.
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2010 was a turning point for women running for Governor — and a turning point in our 12 years of researching their campaigns. In the midst of the most partisan political landscape in recent history, gender disadvantages faded and women candidates showed distinct advantages over their male competitors. More than ever, gender has the potential to become a strategic asset for women running for executive office.read more >>

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The report, 2008 Ballot Measure Overview: Interests Spend Lavishly To Influence Voters On Hot-Button Issues, finds that special interests and businesses spent lavishly to influence voters on hot-button issues in 2008.read more >>

Just to be on the safe side, voters in Oklahoma this month overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment that prevents the Talibanization of the Sooner State. Henceforth, there will be no public stonings in Ponca City, no forced burqa wearing in Bartlesville, no sharia law in Lawton.

Even supporters of the referendum - which forbade state courts from considering sharia in their deliberations - admitted that the threat from Oklahoma's 30,000 Muslims couldn't be called "imminent." read more >>

Working America members voted overwhelmingly for endorsed working family candidates, 71 percent to 29 percent in the House and 70 percent to 30 percent in the Senate. The size and effectiveness of our program served as a firewall in several crucial victories, but in too many races it was not large enough to compete with Glenn Beck, the Tea Party and hudreds of million of dollars in corporate cash.read more >>

WASHINGTON — For the first time in over a decade, the incoming class of Congress will include two black Republicans, both of whom rode the Tea Party wave to victory while playing down their race.

One of them, Allen West, a retired lieutenant colonel in the Army, prevailed in a tough fight in a South Florida district. The other, Tim Scott, is the first black Republican to be elected to the House of Representatives from South Carolina in over a century. They will be the first black Republicans in Congress since J. C. Watts of Oklahoma retired in 2003. read more >>