by jpitney | Oct 26, 2024 | Election Security, Elections, Foreign Policy, Russia
From ODNI: Today, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released the following statement: “The IC assesses that Russian actors manufactured...
by jpitney | Oct 19, 2024 | Elections, Public Service
Kim Wehlke at The Bulwark: In September, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, told CBS News: “We’re daily receiving threats, whether it’s through voicemails, emails, social media or in person,” including to her personally, “and it’s escalating. . ....
by jpitney | Oct 13, 2024 | Elections, Journalism, Journalists, Public Opinion
From Pew: About a third of U.S. adults say television is the most common way they get political and election news (35%), while roughly one-in-five each most commonly get it from news websites or apps (21%) or social media (20%). Smaller shares turn primarily to...
by jpitney | Oct 11, 2024 | Civic Education, Elections, Youth
Voting Carnival sparks civic engagement ahead of 2024...
by jpitney | Jul 23, 2024 | California Politics, Elections
Dan Walters: Former President Donald Trump was preparing to depict Biden as a doddering old man, incapable of governing, but now he will likely face Harris, who is two decades younger. He must devise a new strategy to prevail in the half dozen or so swing states whose...
by jpitney | Mar 6, 2024 | Civility, Elections
Chris Stirewalt at The Dispatch: We could debate how much the Tea Party movement was astroturf (at least some) or how much of it was anti-Obama xenophobia (more than its defenders would like to admit), but there’s no doubt that people like [Ken] Buck were utterly...
