Regardless of the proposition's intent, electoral experts say its impact is unclear.
For Democrats, conventional wisdom has always been that gun laws are an electoral Achilles heel; a disastrous proposition for candidates at the ballot box.
He sold Clintonism as a matter of conviction and a promising electoral strategy, and both were sincere propositions.
Supporters, including Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado, both Republicans, have been promoting the measure — Proposition 14 — as a kind of electoral panacea, saying it could encourage political moderates and increase turnout in primaries where hard-line candidates often win.
Political activists still train one another in basic electoral skills, not for party work but for proposition and measure campaigns (as a consultant put it, the great thing about doing propositions is: no candidate).
In three new lawsuits, newly-wed couples have argued that the way Proposition 8 was put to voters breached electoral protocol.
The first part of this proposition, at least, is based on some actual electoral arithmetic.
Lesbians and gays who are accustomed to electoral setbacks even in years when the liberal cause advances — California Proposition 8, in 2008, was one stinging example — now savor something rich and strange: the feeling that the great silent majority is moving to their side.
Proposition 3 shows that with two candidates competing for office, the electoral process can be informative, but only if voters have opposite views.
It is often assumed that the institutional organization of electoral management bodies (EMB) has an impact on the credibility of elections, but this proposition has been difficult to verify empirically.
