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4 Feb 2008, 10:23 am
But we never hear quite enough about the far more outlandish distortion of democracy foisted on us by the Electoral College. ...As is unfortunately the case with so many aspects of our electoral system, it is people of color who wind up disenfranchised and underrepresented. [read post]
4 Feb 2008, 9:25 am
I seem to recall that today was the deadline to turn in signatures for the measure which would change the allocation of California's electoral college votes from winner take all to a congressionally based system. [read post]
1 Feb 2008, 6:36 am
The Michigan Law Review has published this online symposium on "Recent Proposals for Electoral College Reform. [read post]
31 Jan 2008, 8:19 am
See this pdf with articles by Dan Tokaji, Tom Hiltack (on the California electoral college measure), Sam Hirsch (on the same measure), John Mark Hansen, Ethan Leib, and Alexander Belenky. [read post]
31 Jan 2008, 5:51 am
Does the electoral college need reforming? [read post]
31 Jan 2008, 5:01 am
The Michigan Law Review â [read post]
31 Jan 2008, 4:42 am
The symposium contributors explore the viability and advisability in today's political climate of these and other Electoral College reform proposals. [read post]
30 Jan 2008, 8:50 pm
I'm happy to direct readers to check out a new symposium up at Michigan Law Review's First Impressions on the Electoral College. [read post]
30 Jan 2008, 7:00 pm
The Michigan Law Review's companion journal First Impressions today published an online symposium on Recent Proposals for Electoral College Reform. [read post]
28 Jan 2008, 1:55 pm
But I did once serve as Visiting Professor of Law and Economics at the College of Law at Florida State University, which is how it came to pass that I met Dan Markel. [read post]
28 Jan 2008, 12:56 am
In that case, Bush will not be regarded as a complete failure but as a middling to poor President, like Benjamin Harrison, the last Republican president before McKinley (and who also won a majority of the electoral college while losing the popular vote).Of course we cannot know the future. [read post]
27 Jan 2008, 9:47 am
All I want is for some candidate to say that at least one single aspect of the Constitution--it would seem easiest to start with the electoral college and its incentive to engage in pander-politics directed at the "battleground states," plus its demonstrated proclivity for putting people in the White House without demonstrated majority support of the country (see, e.g., the elections of 1968 and 1992)--might have something to do with the present situation. [read post]
24 Jan 2008, 12:43 pm
Miles Notes Giving Precise Content to the Eighth Amendment: An Assessment of the Remedial Provisions of the Prison Litigation Reform Act Why the National Popular Vote Plan Is the Wrong Way to Abolish the Electoral College Essay Deconstructing Equity: Public Ownership, Agency Costs, and Complete Capital Markets Ronald J. [read post]
21 Jan 2008, 4:48 pm
Compare the numbers: South Carolina has 2.5 million registered voters, 54 total delegates (45 committed) and 8 electoral college votes. [read post]
16 Jan 2008, 2:56 am
I wrote an op-ed last month for the International Herald Tribune (see http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/20/opinion/edrobinson.php) that briefly outlines some of the reasons why I see this new global primary as part of a broader globalization of the electoral process in the U.S. [read post]
10 Jan 2008, 3:07 pm
The irony is that the knock on him in Illinois when he ran for Senate in 2004 was that he was a policy wonk, too enmeshed in the minutiae of the legislative process to really appeal to much more than a sliver of the Illinois electorate. [read post]
10 Jan 2008, 12:53 pm
HEIN AND COMPANY Electoral Count of 1877 Proceedings of the Electoral Commission and of the Two Houses of Congress in Joint Meeting Relative to the Count of Electoral Votes Cast December 6, 1876.... [read post]
8 Jan 2008, 11:43 am
New Hampshire by the numbers:2008: 850,836 total registered voters 26% Democratic 30% Republican 44% Independent Delegates: 27 22 tied to primary results 5 super-delegates, free to choose Electoral College Votes: 4 [More...] [read post]
7 Jan 2008, 11:39 pm
Ann Bartow has tagged me with the "Headlines for the new year" blogging meme, which originated on Feminist Law Professors and began spreading there.The premise is simple: I have to identify headlines in four distinct categories:Headline I'm most fearful of seeing in 2008:Polar ice melt deemed irreversibleEvacuation of New Orleans, Pacific Ocean islands advisedHere's a runner-up in this category:President-Elect _____ assassinatedPolitical crisis looms; war in Middle East… [read post]
7 Jan 2008, 5:00 pm
Point your browser to one of the websites at which people can trade "shares" in candidates' likelihood of winning the nomination, the Presidency, above a certain fraction of the Electoral College and so forth. [read post]
