Tag: Elections
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Power, Resentment, and the Trump Shield: A Political Psychology Analysis of the 2026 Kansas Republican Governor’s Debate
Trump’s endorsement was less a credential than a weapon — Ty Masterson wielded it across nearly every topic at the 2026 Kansas Republican governor debate. A two-track analysis decodes all four candidates’ psychology and persuasion before August 4.
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Kansas Republican Governor Debate Transcription June 5, 2026
Transcription of the formal 2026 Republican gubernatorial primary debate portion of Debate Night in Kansas, hosted by John Holt at Johnson County Community College on June 5, 2026.
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Claude AI Looks at an Election
On March 3, 2026, the City of Wichita held a special election. I asked Claude, a popular AI platform, to examine the election results.
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Utah Citizenship Voting Review Update
Utah’s Lieutenant Governor reports that a statewide citizenship review of voter rolls found more than 99.9 percent of registered voters are U.S. citizens, identified very few confirmed noncitizens, corrected systemic weaknesses, and emphasized the need to balance election integrity with protecting eligible voters’ rights.
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Kelly v. Kobach: A High-Stakes Battle Over Kansas’s Election Fraud Prosecution Authority
Governor Laura Kelly challenges Attorney General Kris Kobach’s authority to prosecute election fraud cases in a high-stakes separation of powers dispute before the Kansas Supreme Court. The case asks whether the Legislature can grant the AG criminal prosecution authority or if this unconstitutionally transfers executive power from the Governor.
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Insights from The New GOP: Survey Analysis of Americans Overall, Today’s Republican Coalition, and the Minorities of MAGA
Analysis of a comprehensive Manhattan Institute survey reveals troubling patterns within the Republican and Trump voter coalition. With 45% more likely to believe conspiracy theories when experts reject them, 51% believing the 2020 election was fraudulent, and significant majorities questioning the loyalty of minority Americans, the data suggests an epistemological break that fundamentally challenges democratic…
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Supreme Court Redistricting Decision: Texas Gerrymandering Case (Abbott v. LULAC)
The Supreme Court granted Texas’s emergency request to use a congressional map that a district court found violated the Constitution through racial gerrymandering. This analysis explains the 6-3 decision, the evidence of race-based line-drawing, and implications for 2026 elections.
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Trump, Biden, Obama Votes
In this statement attributed to Donald J. Trump, he asserts that Joe Biden received 15 million more votes in 2020 than Barack Obama did in 2012 (81 million vs. 65.9 million). Trump further claims Biden “beat” Obama in every swing state among Black voters despite those voters supposedly “hating him,” concluding that the 2020 election…
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Misleading on Gerrymandering
The meme simplifies a complex issue by equating disproportional outcomes with gerrymandering and by ignoring structural and geographic factors that explain seat distribution.
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Donald Trump Remarks on Mail-in Voting
Donald Trump stated that mail-in voting is “totally rigged.”
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Cost of Voting in States
There’s a clear relationship between how a state voted in 2024 and how difficult that state makes it for people to vote.
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Cost of Voting and State Politics
Examining the relationship between state voting laws and political sentiment.