Exposition and analysis of polling data from 1952 to 2006 on voting in presidential and House elections.

Political dysfunction. Partisanship at record levels. Attack politics run amok. And public approval of Congress scraping the single digits (Sen. John McCain is fond of saying it's down to blood rlatives and paid staff).

AEI's Political Report dives deep into what happened on Election Day, examining how 2010 stacks up historically, revealing what voters want Congress to do about health care, and providing exit poll nuggets from A to Z.

Everyone knows who the Democratic nominee will be. This gives Barack Obama all sorts of advantages. But unity and enthusiasm are not the same thing. Everyone in the family can agree to eat Aunt Sally’s leftover casserole, but that doesn’t mean they’re going to be excited about it.

Most Americans are appalled not only by the notion of unequal enforcement of voter-intimidation cases, but by the whole politically correct edifice of affirmative action and racial preferences that has been constructed over the years.

How well can our election administration system handle another close election? Since Bush v. Gore in 2000, substantial changes have occurred in the areas of voter registration, voter identification, voting technology, provisional balloting, and recounts. Experts from the election law program at The Ohio State University recently completed a comprehensive...

The 1965 Voting Rights Act was the beginning, not the end, of an important debate on race and representation in American democracy.

A statute to ensure the voting rights of minorities in 1965 has become a gerrymandering tool to further the interests of political parties and incumbent politicians.