The news channels are reporting record turnout and everything appears up in the air. I was just canvassing a heavily African-American area in downtown Charleston. It's the kind of neighbourhood where...

This is meant to be the the age of apathy. Politics is meant to be so managerial and technocratic, and the public so materialistic, that political participation has become the domain of the...

Much ink has been spilled the positive impact of democracy on growth, peace and wellbeing. Less has been written about the perverse incentives created by universal suffrage such as the desire of...

USA Today's front cover yesterday featured an upbeat piece stating that by two to one, voters are more enthusiastic than usual about this year's election. Meanwhile, here in South Carolina, The Post...

Yesterday evening I attended a local Democratic party meeting. At first glance it didn't seem so different from a local political meeting in Britain: thirty-odd people in a room fit for twice that...

With news of Mitt Romney's win in Michigan filtering through yesterday evening, for the Republicans it was three primaries down, three winners, nothing resolved. On my way to South Carolina I sat...