The Vermont Political Observer.

While I was staring at my computer screen on election night, I noticed what looked like a trend: Amanda Janoo was badly underperforming in the Burlington suburbs. The trend held through the evening and into the final results. This...

It’s been a while since I posted anything in my occasional “Bookshelf” series, spotlighting books I think are worth sharing. But in honor of the November 11 holiday, here’s a bit about a writer I just discovered a couple of years...

I don’t know about you, but I’m still living in the afterglow of the most positive non-presidential election I’ve experienced since 1974. I was certainly still there on Friday morning, the third day after the election, wh...

Hey everybody, meet Stephanie Mack, Republican candidate for Vermont House in the Chittenden-24 district. She ran against incumbent Democrat Alyssa Black and lost by more than 20 percentage points. (“Erik Post” was a Dem candidate...

There are two very different interpretations of Amanda Janoo’s candidacy for governor. It was one of the most brilliant surprises in the recent history of Vermont politics, or it was a lucky accident. Janoo herself? Emerging supe...