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26 Aug 2007, 4:38 am
States with large numbers of votes in the electoral college (Florida, California, etc.) seem to be the ones wanting earlier primaries, and yet they’re also the states that get the most attention in the months leading up to the election. [read post]
11 Nov 2020, 6:03 am
Tweet It comes as news to no objective person that Joe Biden won a sweeping victory in the election — both in the popular vote and most likely in the electoral college when the counting is done — and that Donald Trump has lost. [read post]
8 Dec 2020, 3:09 pm
With less than eight hours remaining before the “safe harbor” deadline for states to finalize the post-election certification of their votes in the Electoral College, the court issued a one-sentence order denying the plea to intervene from Rep. [read post]
29 Jan 2021, 7:21 am
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) indicted three members of Oath Keepers, a far-right militia organization, on Wednesday for conspiring to storm the Capitol in an attempt to obstruct Congress as it certified the vote of the US Electoral College. [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]
10 Dec 2020, 9:28 am
Joe Biden won the presidential election vote in Nevada, which has six votes in the Electoral College, by 33,596 votes in the November 3 election. [read post]
12 Jul 2013, 1:45 am
Over at Concurring Opinions, Gerard Magliocca has a very interesting post on the 3/5ths Clause, which, he points out, gave slave states increased representation in Congress and the Electoral College above what they would have had enslaved persons, who after all, could not vote, not been counted at all. [read post]
23 Dec 2022, 2:27 pm
The bill also overhauls the Electoral Count Act of 1887; the law governs the counting of Electoral College votes, which ultimately decides the US Presidency. [read post]
23 Jun 2017, 12:26 pm
If the electorate's will is to be honored, we will keep it. [read post]
8 Mar 2018, 9:01 pm
First, the electoral college is skewed in favor of less populous states, because the number of electoral college votes given to a state depends on its number of representatives and senators. [read post]
24 Jun 2011, 3:00 am
Marsh (Bridgewater College) offers this overview:As past studies by R. [read post]
21 Aug 2019, 7:30 am
The electoral college did not exist before ratification of the federal Constitution, and thus the states could reserve no rights related to it under the Tenth Amendment. [read post]
16 Aug 2022, 7:01 am
The Electoral Count Act of 1887 (ECA) governs the process of casting and counting Electoral College votes for president and vice president. [read post]
15 Dec 2020, 4:13 am
"Said Joe Biden, last night, on the occasion of the vote of the Electoral College. [read post]
16 Feb 2016, 3:59 pm
That way and only that way can the will of the people Electoral College be honored.Oh, sure. [read post]
7 Feb 2008, 3:57 pm
The electoral college is an ugly problem, but at least people are aware of it. [read post]
9 Sep 2020, 9:40 am
And it might well be the case that federal presidential elections would be better off (fairer, etc.) if every state allocated its electoral votes proportionally to each candidate -- or, better yet, that we just got rid of the electoral college entirely and elected the person with the most votes as president. [read post]
12 Jul 2012, 4:31 am
These new surveys show Obama that these non-college white men represent Obama’s largest source of decline in the white electorate since 2008. [read post]
18 Aug 2007, 9:03 am
In short, the choice isn't between Amar's proposal for a national popular election and the electoral college; the choice is between a winner-take-all electoral college vote distribution and more fine-grained methods of distribution. [read post]
11 Jan 2021, 4:27 pm
The counting of electoral college votes to certify the result of a US election is usually a routine affair. [read post]