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5 Nov 2020, 9:03 pm
West noted that the founders created the Electoral College to account for anti-majoritarian concerns but argued that the Electoral College gives states with less economic activity the power to choose Presidents and dictate public policy. [read post]
5 Nov 2020, 2:15 pm
As of the time of publication, the Associated Press had called 264 electoral college votes for Joe Biden in the 2020 Presidential Election. [read post]
5 Nov 2020, 2:15 pm
As of the time of publication, the Associated Press had called 264 electoral college votes for Joe Biden in the 2020 Presidential Election. [read post]
5 Nov 2020, 4:08 am
Get rid of the Electoral College. [read post]
4 Nov 2020, 4:57 pm
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s campaign filed lawsuits Wednesday in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Georgia, laying the groundwork for contesting battleground states as he slipped behind Democrat Joe Biden in the hunt for the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the White House. [read post]
4 Nov 2020, 4:47 pm
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]
4 Nov 2020, 12:08 pm
And yet California voters decisively rejected a ballot initiative that would have restored affirmative action in public employment and college admissions by at least a dozen points. [read post]
4 Nov 2020, 8:40 am
...since the actual election isn't over yet we can't do a post-mortem on that: but it looks like Biden will just barely win the electoral college, but it's unlikely that the Democrats will take control of the Senate--more on that... [read post]
4 Nov 2020, 5:45 am
Transcript.Yes, the news channels we were watching seemed to just stop calling states, ensuring that Trump's Electoral College number stayed below Biden's. [read post]
3 Nov 2020, 7:04 pm
Supreme Court decision this summer, examines how the Electoral College was created as a compromise by the Founding Fathers in 1787. [read post]
3 Nov 2020, 4:00 pm
But expect one winner to be selected by the Electoral College in December. [read post]
3 Nov 2020, 9:21 am
Still, even making what we think are fairly conservative assumptions, our final forecast has Biden with an 89 percent chance of winning the Electoral College, as compared to a 10 percent chance for Trump. [read post]
3 Nov 2020, 6:40 am
Let's say Biden is behind by 1,000 votes in Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania makes the difference in who wins the electoral college and there are 50,000 uncounted mail-in votes from Philadelphia. [read post]
3 Nov 2020, 4:01 am
The addition of electoral votes for the District of Columbia because of the 23rd Amendment made the electoral college total an equally divisible number: 538 electors. [read post]
2 Nov 2020, 9:00 pm
Holder (2013).Even when states manage their elections properly, they feed their results into an Electoral College system that is arbitrary and convoluted at best—and an anti-democratic monstrosity at worst.All these flaws were evident in the epic election meltdown of 2000, which came down to a disputed margin of 537 votes separating Republican George W. [read post]
2 Nov 2020, 3:14 pm
But in three critical battleground states — Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan — officials aren’t allowed to start processing early ballots until on or just before Election Day itself, which could delay not just their state results but also, if the Electoral College count is close, potentially leave the whole presidential race up in the air. [read post]
2 Nov 2020, 1:57 pm
Presidential Library devoted to the electoral college, how it works, and efforts to reform or abolish it. [read post]
2 Nov 2020, 10:31 am
These scenarios are certainly possible under the law, and the 2000 election crisis in Florida shows that perfect electoral storms do happen. [read post]
2 Nov 2020, 5:24 am
It creates sets rules for the electoral college. [read post]
1 Nov 2020, 9:01 pm
There is a reason, after all, that Republicans’ only hope for electoral salvation is by denying people the right to vote.So even though Trump himself has said bluntly that he thinks it would bore his rally crowds if he were to repeat talking points about the economy, it might actually be true that his advisors are right to think that—from a list of losing policy positions—maybe their economic ideas would do them the least political damage. [read post]
