electoral votes

You might think Yale economics professor William C. Fair is a bit crazy. After all, he's predicting that President Obama will cruise to reelection in 2012. However, Fair has a good track record of predicting presidential outcomes based on his economic model.

The Great California Budget Saga has ended. Two months past deadline, California's legislature and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger reached a tense accord to close the state's yawning $26.3 billion budget gap. The agreement came after months of fighting between Democrats seeking tax increases and...

The Tea Party rallies this week have prompted an obvious question from investors and public officials alike: will the Tea Partiers seek an economic third way? Let's put on the old political science hat for a moment to see if history and research can tell us anything about third party attempts in...