Shifts in Last Two Months of Election Not Uncommon; Average change in "gap" since 1936 is 6.6 points.
Byline: Frank Newport Synopsis: An analysis of the relationship between post-convention Gallup Poll results in previous presidential elections and the eventual election outcome shows that the "gap" between candidates shifts on average by 6.6 points, and that the gap narrows more often than it expands as Election...

Lopez Torres and judicial selection in New York: an argument for merit-based appointment to the state Supreme Court.
I. INTRODUCTION The New York State Supreme Court is New York's statewide trial court of general jurisdiction. Justices of the state supreme court have been chosen by popular election since that change was effected by the New York Constitution of 1846. (1) With the exception of a...

Impeachment fever; Hate-Bush crowd hijacked Democrats' convention.
COLUMN: IN OUR OPINION Political party conventions tend to be largely meaningless exercises in backslapping, elbow-rubbing and over-inflated rhetoric, but last weekend's meeting of Massachusetts Democrats in Amherst takes the prize for ideological buffoonery. The convention, apparently in the thrall of the moonbat wing of...

Political parties may start today holding meetings to select bets in May polls.
Byline: E. T. SUAREZ All political parties and coalitions of parties may start holding their conventions and meetings today to select and nominate official candidates for all positions to be contested in next year's elections as provided in Commission on Elections (Comelec) Resolution No. 7707 prescribing the...

'Happy days' are here! (Editor's note: Party conventions years ago served lunch boxes costing less than P0.50 each. No government money was directly or indirectly "donated" as noted by the author.).
Byline: Romeo V. Pefianco SAN JOSE, Antique -- Coffee shops here, including my sidewalk cafA[c], are attending to a bigger number of customers daily, an increase of close to 50 percent in attendance. Politicians and their friends are overly generous some five weeks before election day. ...

Party conventions deadline: Jan. 1.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has reminded all political parties and all coalitions of political parties that they have only until Jan. 1, 2001 - six days from today - to hold conventions to nominate official candidates for the May 14, 2001, national, local, and party-list polls. ...

Primaries, conventions should be paid by the parties, not taxpayers.
Byline: GUEST VIEWPOINT By Tonie Nathan For The Register-Guard The Register-Guard editorial (June 6) on "Revitalizing the primary" describes a "top-two" system for primary elections. Although it is a better system than what we have now, it doesn't go far enough. Why not do away...

Voter information section updated!
"GET REGISTERED, GET EDUCATED AND GET OUT AND VOTE!" The Voter information section on the League Web site (www.lwv.org/voter) now contains eight sections designed to guide voters through the entire election process: Read About It; Register to Vote; Get Educated; Deadlines, Dates, and Contacts; Get Out the...

From Vast Wasteland to electronic garden: responsibilities in the new video environment.
Newton Minow's "Vast Wasteland" speech (1) set a tone for his tenure at the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC"), and will forever be associated with Minow's very distinguished legal career. It was brave, brash, and on point. It suggested a lack of responsibility by television broadcasters to air cultural content,...

LETTERS IN THE EDITOR'S MAILBAG.
Byline: The Register-Guard Where was girl's life jacket? Shame on The Register-Guard for printing a picture of a 10-year-old girl shown floating on an inner-tube on the Willamette River (Register-Guard, July 12). Did you notice one huge problem with this scene? Where is the life...