Governor Jerry Brown's proposed budget plan read like most budgetary analyses, a mostly dry explanation of projected revenue and expenditures. However, this line stood out:

The U.S. Census Bureau released its report on income, poverty, and health for 2011 this past week. The information in it will likely have an impact on how candidates on the campaign trail focus their message on the economy, job creation, and healthcare as we get closer to November.

While the contention pertaining to the death of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens in Libya occupies the front pages, another overseas front,  President Barack Obama's so-called Asian Pivot, may be entering a major stage as a potential diplomatic rift surfaces in the south Pacific.

In what some are calling a pointless and overreaching case of government intrusion, the California Fair Political Practices Committee is proposing that political campaigns be required to document and report payments to bloggers and social media users.

The Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) was started in 1987 by the Democratic and Republican parties to organize and host presidential election debates in the United States.

The U.S. Census Bureau released its report on income, poverty, and health for 2011 this past week. The information in it will likely have an impact on how candidates on the campaign trail focus their message on the economy, job creation, and healthcare as we get closer to November.

In 2009, the US Senate passed the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment (MOVE) Act. The MOVE Act was an addition to the National Defense Authorization Act of that year and required states to ensure that the votes of all US troops deployed overseas be counted during an election. States took various paths toward ensuring that our troops would be able to participate in the elections taking place at home in 2010. Utah chose to implement online voting for service members deployed overseas from their state.