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9 Oct 2007, 10:19 am
Although Electoral College Reform is dead in California, Peter Smith at the Co-Op tries to argue that the initiative to re-allocate electoral votes would have been unconstitutional. [read post]
14 Dec 2020, 5:52 pm by Tom Smith
Last Friday, a Politico report itemizing the steps Joe Biden’s campaign has taken to ensure that the Electoral College affirmed the results of the November elections incorporated a valuable historical footnote: “The intensity of the threats Biden electors have faced so far, three days before they vote, pales in comparison with the 2016 lobbying effort,” the report read. [read post]
14 Nov 2020, 1:10 pm by Tom Smith
Biden Jr. has narrowly won Arizona, capturing the state’s 11 electoral votes and strengthening his Electoral College margin as President Trump continues to make baseless attacks on the vote counts favoring Mr. [read post]
9 Mar 2017, 8:16 am by Dawn Allen
With Trump riding the electoral college into office and the political Left in a bit of disarray, what happens next? [read post]
31 Oct 2020, 11:04 am by Sabrina I. Pacifici
It provides a fail-safe mechanism for only one situation, which has not happened since 1824: If no candidate gets the necessary majority of votes in the Electoral College, then the House picks the president from the top three Electoral College candidates. [read post]
7 Nov 2006, 6:14 am
In the event, of course, the result was precisely the opposite, and immediately the Bushies launched into precisely the opposite argument: the Electoral College is a vital part of our Constitution, electors are not free agents, threatening the Electoral College result would be thumbing your nose at the founding fathers, and so on. [read post]
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]
11 Dec 2020, 6:54 am by Derek T. Muller
This year’s convening of the Electoral College in fifty states and the District of Columbia should be relatively uneventful. [read post]
4 Jun 2020, 1:37 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
With the presidential election on the horizon, the U.S. electorate continues to be deeply divided by race and ethnicity, education, gender, age and religion. [read post]
5 Nov 2016, 4:54 pm by Tom Smith
It would not necessarily require a major polling error for Trump to be elected, though he would have to do so with an extremely narrow majority in the Electoral College. [read post]
10 Feb 2008, 11:51 pm
[WARNING: video.]For a more subtle analysis of how McCain will succeed within the Electoral College structure, read this.AND: Don't miss the fact that Mickey's statement is a year old. [read post]
20 Jan 2014, 1:02 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Kennedy carried the electoral college by a comfortable margin, 303 out of 537 electoral votes, but his popular vote margin was a narrow 49.72 percent to 49.55 percent for Republican Richard Nixon. [read post]
4 May 2022, 12:11 pm by Howard Bashman
“Women Wouldn’t Lose Their Right to Choose If We Elected Presidents by Popular Vote; Four of the five justices who are prepared to overturn Roe were installed by popular vote–losing presidents; Blame the Electoral College”: Timothy Noah has this essay online at The New Republic. [read post]
4 Jan 2021, 4:15 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Hawley says he will challenge certification of electoral college vote. [read post]
5 Nov 2016, 2:37 pm by Michael Froomkin
By my count Clinton just needs to win one of these, and she wins the electoral college, even if there is a faithless elector in Washington State (or even two), and even if Trump wins New Hampshire. [read post]