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	Definition of Cook Partisan Voting Index
		The Cook Partisan Voting Index indicates how much more Democratic or Republican a district performs compared to the nation as a whole.
		It was originally developed in 1997 by the Cook Political Report, a nonpartisan review of national and state races, working with Polidata, a political statistic analysis firm.
		They based their analysis on the 1992 and 1996 presidential voting patterns for each congressional district.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Cook_Partisan_Voting_Index (139 words)

	LexisNexis(TM) Academic - Document
		The choice between exploiting these opportunities and showing mercy depends almost entirely upon the partisan composition of the state legislature at the time of redistricting and has little or nothing to do with the extent to which voters actually approve of the job their congressional representatives are doing.
		partisan gerrymandering is its upset of the balance of federalism: through redistricting, state legislatures have essentially replevied the power they once had to choose their respective states' delegates to the national government.
		partisan gerrymandering of congressional districts, when a single party has unilateral control of the process and uses that control to advance the interests of the party rather than the people, is a clear abuse of that power.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~novkov/civlib/newmap.htm (6782 words)

	Index He-Hn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		When Hertzog's motion to remain out of the war was defeated in Parliament (Sept. 4, 1939) by a vote of 80 to 67, he resigned, and Smuts formed a new government.
		Hitler opposed Paul von Hindenburg in the presidential election of 1932, capturing 36.8% of the votes on the second ballot.
		His ability to bridge partisan differences by his personal charm and his sense of humour made him one of the most popular members of the House of Commons.
	www.manic-raven.com /rulers/indexh2.html (12204 words)

	Index Le-Lh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Leavitt, chairman of the Republican Governors Association in 1995, is a strong partisan of balancing the federal budget and devolving powers to the states.
		In 1978, when Pinochet called a vote to request that Chileans reject the United Nation's condemnation of the regime's human rights record, Leigh called the move "typical of governments in which power is in the hands of a single dictator." Pinochet believed Leigh wanted to challenge him to lead the country.
		In 1990 his party nominated him as its candidate for the presidency, and though he was an early favourite and expected to win in keeping with Fianna Fáil's historic domination of that contest, he narrowly lost to coalition candidate Mary Robinson in the second round.
	www.manic-raven.com /rulers/indexl2.html (13136 words)

	FairVote - 2. Monopoly Politics
		Our methodology was adapted by analyst Charlie Cook for his well-known “partisan voting index” (PVI) measurement of districts.
		Although there likely were slight deviations from a 50-50 partisan division in some of those elections – a slight advantage for Democrats in 1998, for example, and a somewhat bigger advantage for Republicans in 2002 – we have evaluated our projections based on a 50-50 vote.
		Indeed the most striking trend in our analysis has been the increase in seats projected to be won and won easily – a trend that has closely tracked a general decline in competitiveness in elections.
	www.fairvote.org /?page=1903 (521 words)

	Elections, Public Opinion, & Voting Behavior
		Not surprisingly, the handling of unrecorded votes was at the center of the legal and political disputes in the Florida recount.
		Chicago and surrounding Cook County, which use punch card ballots, had one of the highest rates of unrecorded votes in the nation in the 2000 presidential election.
		Conventional wisdom holds that voters profess to vote for the person and not the party, and thus may be unwilling to support ballot features that make it easy to cast a straight-party ticket.
	www.apsanet.org /~elections/archives/kimball.html (2077 words)

	Index Ba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Bajuk was elected by 46 votes to 44; in two previous rounds of voting he failed to win enough support.
		Excluded from her first government, he wrote her a letter urging the importance of information technology, with the result that, in January 1981, she made him responsible for it as minister, a high-profile post that gave him the chance to promote the wider use of electronic and computer technology in schools and industry.
		After a vote of censure in the Senate, he staged a coup on February 21, dissolving parliament and filling the capital with troops.
	rulers.org /indexb1.html (19231 words)

	The Seattle Times: Opinion: More voters declaring independence from partisan paths
		In this starkly partisan era of Red and Blue America, we may need a third color to describe those who formally call themselves neither Democrat nor Republican.
		Voters in Colorado have quite literally shown that they vote the person rather than the party, electing Ben Nighthorse Campbell to the Senate in 1992 as a Democrat, then electing him to a second term as a Republican.
		For those of us who worry about a future defined by the sharp shadings of Red and Blue America, perhaps there is hope in contemplating what might happen if the politics of states such as Maine and Colorado were to go national in the years ahead.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/opinion/2001999499_sunvoters08.html (1777 words)

	How To Steal An Election by Jeff Jacoby
		It is illegal to register to vote simultaneously in different jurisdictions, but scofflaws have little to worry about.
		Leaving their homes and offices, mingling at a public polling place, waiting together in line to cast their votes, Americans were reminded that, whatever their differences, they were all equal members of a political community with an equal say in its governance.
		The proliferation of absentee voting also means that the secret ballot is increasingly a thing of the past.
	www.ejfi.org /Voting/Voting-68.htm (1718 words)

	Not So Non-Partisan School Board Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Rather interviews a Lee County elections official who says the touchscreen voting machines used there, similar to the ones used in Sarasota, had calibration issues that would cause the wrong candidates name to be highlighted.
		Many Democrats are convinced voting machines didn’t work properly, and the 18,000 votes would have gone in Jennings favor making her the winner instead of Buchanan.
		Earlier this year Buchanan voted to repeal tax breaks for gas and oil companies, even though ATR had warned him then it would be considered a tax increase.
	www.heraldtribune.com /article/20060415/BLOG01/60415002/1005/section?CATEGORY=Help07 (5428 words)

	http://www.qando.net/ - 2006: 1994 for Democrats?
		Democrats' chances of taking those 15 seats are not very good — if the voting patterns and political contours that have held steady since the 1995-96 budget showdown continue to prevail.
		In the five House elections starting in 1996, Republicans have won between 49 percent and 51 percent of the popular votes, Democrats between 46 percent and 48.5 percent of the popular votes.
		- Bush'??s median percentage of the vote in 2000 in all 17 was 55%.
	www.qando.net /details.aspx?Entry=3576 (2348 words)

	CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX
		Eventually two additional indexes will be added, one listing the letters alphabetically by author and the other by subject.
		This index does not include every letter published during that period, although that was the original intent.
		There are no doubt errors in the index: names misspelled, dates copied or typed incorrectly, pages wrongly numbered, letters categorized by the wrong topic, etc. Since this is a cyberbook, those errors can be easily corrected if brought to our attention.
	www.intranet.csupomona.edu /~reshaffer/indxint.htm (2483 words)

	Convention Dispatches: Charlie Cook Archives
		The electoral votes in Florida (27), Ohio (20), and Pennsylvania (21) total 68, plenty more than the 52 electoral votes in the seven other states that can be considered toss-ups right now: Iowa (7), Minnesota (10), Missouri (11), Nevada (5), New Hampshire (4), New Mexico (5), and Wisconsin (10).
		Charlie Cook is editor and publisher of The Cook Political Report and political analyst for National Journal Group, where he writes weekly columns for National Journal and CongressDailyAM.
		Charlie Cook writes in Convention Daily that one interesting aspect of this election is that although the presidential race is incredibly polarized and partisan, the animosity toward President Bush that exists among 48 or 49 percent of the American people does not seem to have transferred to other Republicans running in the fall.
	conventions.nationaljournal.com /archives/charlie_cook (4270 words)

	WhiteHouseForSale.org \| Blog Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Many were upset that the CEO of the largest provider of electronic voting machines was seen as having a political stake in the technology.
		CEO Maurice "Hank" Greenberg is a Ranger whose activities have ranged from helping Enron cook its books to opposing the Sarbanes-Oxley bill that cracked down on corporate governance.
		We've reported on the fuss created by Diebold chairman Walden O'Dell's letter to GOP party faithful, saying he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year." O'Dell has since realized that it might be considered inappropriate for the chair of a company supplying voting technology to be seen as partisan.
	www.whitehouseforsale.org /blog/index.cfm?startrow=1&maxrows=20 (4888 words)

	Dump Mike Ferguson: Polls Archives
		Charlie Cook runs one of the most reliable and believed in political newsletters, and is particularly famous for handicapping races.
		When a candidate moves within Cook's categories, it is a sign that something is changing and usually considered a big deal.
		NJ7 has a Cook Report Partisan Voting Index of just R+1 which means it voted for Bush one percent more than that country did as a whole.
	www.dumpmike.com /polls (305 words)

	Alabama's 6th congressional district - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Once encompassing all of Birmingham and Jefferson Country, the sixth district is now the suburban Birmingham-area district with nearly all of the urban districts having been removed over the past couple of decades.
		A continual process of redistricting by Democratic state governments has seen the sixth district take on an increasingly unusual shape, and becoming one of the most republican districts in the country - voting 78% for George W. Bush in 2000.
		The demography of the district comprises mostly of middle and upper middle class white collar families who work in Birmingham.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives,_Alabama_District_6 (386 words)

	WORLD Magazine \| Weekly News, Christian Views
		Note: Cook Rating is the forecast for the race as judged by elections guru Charlie Cook as of Sept. 20.
		PVI indicates the Partisan Voting Index, a measure Cook uses to determine the temperature of each House district.
		A PVI of R+1 indicates the district voted 1 percentage point higher for Bush in 2000 and 2004 than the national average.
	www.worldmag.com /articles/12279 (327 words)

	Dave Lindorff: A Progressive Case for Voting for Kerry?
		The idea here is that by withdrawing our votes from the sell-out Democrats and casting them for a genuine progressive alternative, we force the Democratic Party to shift its position more to the left on a variety of issues.
		Even when they have managed to make significant inroads into the vote tally, as in the case of George Wallace's American Party or Ross Perot's Reform Party and their presidential campaigns, it was a matter of one-shot deals built around a personality, not a movement.
		The other argument made against voting for a DLC Democrat like Kerry is that he might just copy Clinton, who decided, in a major betrayal of progressive Democrats just two years into office, that he'd rather work with a Republican Congress than fight for a liberal Democratic one.
	www.counterpunch.org /lindorff09272004.html (3177 words)

	Ex Mea Sententia
		My stove and oven are both electric, so no way to cook apart from the propane in my grill or cooking over an open fire in the yard.
		Up in the morning at about 5 to light the fireplace that served as the kitchen, call to the children to come down, cook the breakfast, tend the stock, try to keep the farm solvent during the whole war with her husband gone and with inflation and with shortages of everything.
		Italy was voted the world's most cultured nation with the best cuisine, while the United States was named the most unstylish with the worst food.
	coolrich59.blogspot.com (5260 words)

	Political Notes-Nick Juliano: December 2005 Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Those proposals were dropped at the last minute before the House voted on its version of the bill to secure necessary moderate support in the face of unified Democratic opposition.
		The Cook voting index measures the difference in support for each party's presidential candidate within a district compared with the national total.
		Carrillo was just hired last week, and he told me he's still pouring over voting data from the last election as he lays out a strategy that will begin in earnest next year.
	www.tracypress.com /mt_archives/2005/12 (3063 words)

	Drawing Legal Lines (04/07/2000)
		They include how tightly the district is drawn; the plan's respect for political subdivisions, such as towns, cities, and counties; the maintenance of an existing partisan balance; and the consideration shown for communities of common interest, such as shared socioeconomic interests.
		Under the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Court has said that states with a history of discrimination against minority voters must take race into account in redistricting, because the Voting Rights Act prohibits a "retrogression" in minority voting rights.
		Now minorities fear that Republicans might try to consolidate minority populations in one district, "wasting" their votes by overrepresenting or corralling them.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~jbloom/problems00/nj/0407nj1b.htm (1123 words)

	VA-9: We Have A Challenger! \| Redstate
		It did vote slightly for Clinton in 1996 and 1992.
		Boucher has won 59, 100, 70, 61, 65, and 59 percent of the vote in his last 6 elections spanning from 2006 to 1994.
		He voted against the tax cuts, against drilling in ANWAR, against banning human cloning, and against banning partial birth abortion.
	mason-conservative.redstate.com /story/2006/5/17/221335/665 (742 words)

	The Cook Political Report National Overview
		Barring a dramatic event, we are looking at the prospect of GOP losses in the House of at least 20 to 35 seats, possibly more, and at least four in the Senate, with five or six most likely.
		If independents vote in fairly low numbers, as is customary in midterm elections, losses in the House will be on the lower end of that range.
		Readers should remember the Cook Political Report's long respected policy of not putting unindicted incumbents in a worse category than Toss Up.
	www.cookpolitical.com /overview/default.php (1563 words)

	Index He-Hn
		Leadership of the largest of the four semi-autonomous regions of the NP made Heunis a strong contender to become Botha's eventual successor as president of the country.
		But the following year, in a general election, he retained the Helderberg seat by only an embarrassing 39 votes in a contest against former NP MP and South African ambassador to London Dennis Worrall.
		Worrall was a constitutional guru with whom Heunis had disagreed inside the NP in earlier years, and his challenge was seen as a direct attack on Heunis's vision - or lack of it - on the constitutional future of South Africa.
	www.rulers.org /indexh2.html (13498 words)

	The Gadflyer: Fly Trap (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Using those same Partisan Voting Indexes, I have arrayed the 435 House districts and their presidential voting behavior from the most Republican (UT's Chris Cannon, PVI 26.2R) on the left to the most Democratic (NY's Jose Serrano, 43.4D).
		In any case, remember that the figure arrays the districts based on their presidential voting behavior and not which party actually holds the seat (i.e., there are some Republicans to the right of the cut-line and some Democrats to the left of it).
		The Cook Political Report, published by its namesake, Charlie Cook, one of America's top electoral handicappers, computes after every presidential cycle what it calls a Partisan Voting Index for every one of the 435 congressional districts based on how the district votes for president.
	gadflyer.com /flytrap/index.php?Week=200603 (7975 words)

	OpinionJournal - Best of the Web Today
		Bush's median percentage of the vote in 2000 in all 17 was 55%.
		Of the 17 open Republican seats, Bush increased his percentage of the total vote by an average of 3% between 2000 and 2004.
		The median Cook Partisan Voting Index of these 17 districts is Republican +5.
	www.opinionjournal.com /best/?id=110008066&mod=RSS_Opinion_Journal&ojrss=frontpage (2213 words)

	Lessons from Ohio 2nd? \| TPMCafe
		Paul Hackett is, in the truer sense, a person who used his military experience, straight talk, and a nice balance of the issues in trying to win a seat in one of the most Republican districts throughout all of Congress.
		Maybe not in districts that voted 65% for Bush, or 75% for their former Republican congressmen, but ones that are below 60%.
		The Dems increased their vote by 4,000 from 2002, and decreased their vote by 35,000 from 2004.
	www.tpmcafe.com /story/2005/8/3/115436/8480 (5276 words)

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