Tossed Salad and Scrambled Eggs

The electoral college is getting a lot of flack lately for being why Trump won the election. It occurred to me that the EC, as it is popular...

Our founders held this as an axiom: government should reflect the will of the people. A government which does not is a tyranny, and should...

Forget who the candidates are for a moment. Everything that can be said about them has been said. (Some things bear repeating, but I'll...

Put aside the details of the candidates for a moment; the primary elections have a serious structural problem that needs to be fixed before...

Rick Perry Rick Perry is presently the governor of Texas. Much of the below is about his record in that position, as well as statements h...

The way our system is set up, electoral votes in most states are winner-take-all. That essentially disenfranchises most voters in the gener...

I've talked in the past about how trust in elections is critical. Right now the system simply can't be audited, by design. We have h...

Earlier this year I considered running for Nashville Metro Council. I took out the signature forms, but concluded I couldn't commit the ...

I wrote previously, suggesting that Charlie Brown won his primary due to people who voted for the first name on the ballot. Another writer r...

Right now Tennessee is a single-party state. Republicans hold both US Senate seats, the Governorship, seven of nine US House seats, and over...

The democratic party has selected their candidate for governor. He has no public policy statements, website, or twitter feed. He has an ina...

So I've covered the legislative races, but there are others. Right now there's a heavily-politicized retention election for judges. ...

TL;DR Puttbrese, Aljabbary, Mancini, Rawlings are the only candidates in competitive primaries that I can say seem better than their oppon...

TN-7 has been redistricted out of Davidson County, but enough of greater Nashville is in TN-7 that I want to comment on this race as well. ...

The below are my impressions of each candidate in the upcoming August 7 primary elections for Governor of Tennessee. These impressions are ...

Ah, TN-5. The office I ran for back in the day. I learned a lot from that experience, but that's for another post. The below are my im...