“This week’s Super Tuesday will include results from 14 states and one U.S. territory. In all, 1,357 delegates are at stake. But Democrats do not have winner-take-all rules, so presidential candidates can gain a fair number of delegates without actually “winning” a primary at all. NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Jeff Greenfield explains.” Stream your PBS…
“This Election Day, more than six million Americans will be unable to vote due to a felony conviction. A quarter of those people live in Florida, which has some of the most restrictive laws regarding felony disenfranchisement in the country. But a measure on the state ballot this November could restore voting rights to some…
“The most powerful way to influence how politicians vote is by voting yourself. But Congress’s inability to pass effective legislation of any kind has led to a decrease in voting; why vote if it doesn’t matter. This means politicians are voted in by only the extremes and thus sets us in a vicious circle: voters…
“Voting by students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities has dramatically declined in the last five years and could drop even further by 2018. Those figures should be a wake up call to Democratic leaders who need a high voter turnout among all African Americans in the 2018 midterm elections if they want to win…
On Tuesday, lawyers defending a Wisconsin legislative map that gave Republicans many more seats in the State Assembly argued their case before the Supreme Court. Justice Anthony Kennedy grilled the attorneys, asking skeptical questions. But he didn’t have any question for the lawyers representing the Democratic voters challenging the map. Republican Justice Samuel Alito Junior…