If you’ve been following the tightly-contested race to choose a Democratic candidate for the American presidency, you’ve probably heard the term ’superdelegate’. What is a superdelegate?
To paraphrase Wikipedia, most delegates are selected through party primaries and caucuses (Vanessa explains these here). However, a minority of delegates are ‘unpledged’ and are known as superdelegeates. Back to […]
I imagine most Americans have heard of this phenomenon, but this Canadian had no idea. From a CBC article on Super Tuesday results:
But overwhelming support from African-American and young voters helped propel Obama to 13 wins of his own, including the bellwether state of Missouri, which in presidential elections has predicted every presidential contest except […]
We’re in an era of media amalgamation. This is generally considered a bad thing for freedom of the press and unbiased reporting.
Unfortunately, we’ve also got a Conservative government in power that seeks to curtail those freedoms further. Let’s see what our Prime Minister’s done in the past eighteen months on this front:
He attempted to prevent […]
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