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3 Oct 2008, 4:44 am
The Faculty Lounge ran a very interesting September 24, 2008 article entitled President Palin, and Other Electoral College Curiosities. [read post]
30 Sep 2008, 7:21 pm
Maybe the campaign feels pressured by the latest "global electoral college poll. [read post]
27 Sep 2008, 8:16 pm
The only rational solution is to abolish the Electoral College, or change the all-or-noting system. [read post]
24 Sep 2008, 11:22 pm
Details here.... [read post]
24 Sep 2008, 7:32 pm
Following up on this post, my colleague Karl Manheim sends along these thoughts: There are 3 potential problems with the Washington Times' nightmare scenario following a 269-269 tie in the electoral vote. 1. [read post]
24 Sep 2008, 1:23 am
An electoral college tie. [read post]
23 Sep 2008, 8:59 pm
Call them the "Doomsday" scenarios -- On Nov. 5, the presidential election winds up in a electoral-college tie, 269-269, the Democrat-controlled House picks... [read post]
23 Sep 2008, 8:30 pm
The Washington Times offers this report.... [read post]
23 Sep 2008, 11:21 am
But in a constitutional/political system that includes the electoral college and first-past-the-post winner-take-all allocations in every state but Maine and Nebraska, Paul's decision might turn out to be of historic importance. [read post]
18 Sep 2008, 1:22 am
For example, were it not for the structural provision of the Electoral College, Al Gore would have likely won the Presidency in 2000. [read post]
17 Sep 2008, 4:21 pm
One can, of course, argue that the president is "the choice of the people," but, surely, so long as we have the Electoral College, that argument is, if not outright bogus, at least highly contingent.Again, I wonder if anyone elsewhere in the world, faced with the task of designing a workable constitution that would engender the loyalty of a thinking citizenry, would be "inspired" by Will's column to say, "We should certainly emulate the US and its… [read post]
16 Sep 2008, 6:35 am
How has the progressive/liberal/left wing alliance around the counter-majoritarian legalism of abortion and gay-sex rights cases hampered or compromised the stalled progressive/liberal project of reforming our basic constitutional and political system so as to make it more, rather than less democratic, to free it from no longer even minimally rational hangovers such as the electoral college, winner-take-all rules, or for that matter the under-representation of millions of urbanites… [read post]
15 Sep 2008, 8:38 pm
Because officially, the people, through the Electoral College vote on a Vice President and in this case Congress is acting in the stead of the Electoral College. [read post]
12 Sep 2008, 7:39 am
Siegel, DePaul University College of Law, has posted three papers spanning of number of years. [read post]
11 Sep 2008, 8:48 am
ElectoralMap.net has an electoral projection using the latest prediction market data from Intrade (this map is based on data from September 9th).The electoral map below is a forecast for the 2008 U.S. [read post]
10 Sep 2008, 5:45 am
See here.... [read post]
9 Sep 2008, 11:23 am
Alan Gilbert, who teaches political theory at Denver, has asked me to post the following comment on "constitutional dictatorship":I agree with the constitutional dictatorship point - there are emergencies - and the thoughts that it would be wiser to have no electoral college and knowledge of potential secretaries (at least the main ones) before electing a president (though this means "vetting" all of them which is an obstacle). [read post]
8 Sep 2008, 4:26 pm
Instead, because of the hiatus beween election day and Inaugutation (itself caused and/or justified by the indefensible (to me) electoral college), we elect presidents blindly, having only the most minimal idea of whom they will pick to be, say, secretary of state, defense, or attorney general. [read post]
8 Sep 2008, 12:15 pm
UH OH: Wargaming the Electoral College. [read post]
8 Sep 2008, 8:41 am
" But the county registrar in the county where Virginia Tech trains the next generation of dog-fighting quarterbacks recently announced that students who register to vote at their college address (specifically, a dormitory) are subject to sanctions. [read post]
