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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]
8 Sep 2020, 10:29 am
But a big reason Trump could still win the Electoral College, despite the poor marks Americans give him for his handling of COVID-19 and his job performance overall, is that the Black, Hispanic and college-educated white voters who backed him in 2016 are largely still with him, particularly in key swing states. [read post]
8 Sep 2020, 10:03 am
The subcommittee will hear testimony from Douglas Rutzen, the president and CEO of the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law; Therese Pearce Laanela, the head of electoral processes at the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance; Joanna Rohozinska, the resident program director for Europe at the International Republican Institute; and Jamie Fly, a senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the former president of Radio Free… [read post]
4 Sep 2020, 4:00 am
A democratic system is premised on an informed electorate making choices including as to their representatives. [read post]
3 Sep 2020, 2:05 pm
You have to admit, whatever your position might be on whether the Electoral College is or is not a useful institution, that it's a devilishly clever scheme. [read post]
1 Sep 2020, 11:51 am
And while a majority of Americans rejected his candidacy, likely because of that conduct, as well as other policy-related reasons, he nevertheless became president through the operation of the Electoral College. [read post]
1 Sep 2020, 8:44 am
Remember, because he likely has a built-in edge in the Electoral College, a reasonably small bounce at the national level would make this a very competitive race. [read post]
1 Sep 2020, 8:37 am
In the fabled “blue wall” — the collection of historically Democratic states that pundits (wrongly) assumed gave Hillary Clinton an Electoral College advantage in 2016 — Minnesota is the cornerstone. [read post]
1 Sep 2020, 6:01 am
This means Trump, thanks to Republicans doing almost all of their voting in person, could hold big electoral college and popular vote leads on election night.Imagine America, with its polarization and misinformation, if the vote tally swings wildly toward Joe Biden and Trump loses days later as the mail ballots are counted. [read post]
1 Sep 2020, 5:00 am
Oxford University Press has just published my new book, The Cycles of Constitutional Time. [read post]
31 Aug 2020, 3:35 pm
The second is Dec. 14, when members of the Electoral College cast their votes. [read post]
31 Aug 2020, 6:54 am
Baker, 954 F.3d 351, 371 (1st Cir. 2020) (“The United States' system of representative democracy [includes] ... the Electoral College and ... [read post]
28 Aug 2020, 8:52 am
However, relics of the Jim Crow era persist in our legal and electoral systems. [read post]
25 Aug 2020, 9:50 am
But, it also isn't a very large base, even with its advantages in the Electoral College. [read post]
24 Aug 2020, 1:51 pm
” The event will be a practical discussion between public and private sector figures of how to combat foreign influence in the American electoral process. [read post]
20 Aug 2020, 11:26 am
He won a handy majority in the electoral college, however. [read post]
19 Aug 2020, 1:01 am
Ford is the only person to have served as both vice president and president without being elected to either office by the Electoral College. [read post]
18 Aug 2020, 4:17 pm
That is the title of a new book by two distinguished political scientists, Suzanne Mettler and Robert G. [read post]
14 Aug 2020, 5:01 am
What’s to stop a President from declaring a disaster in states whose electoral college votes were cast for the President and absolving their residents from taxation while increasing tax rates on residents in the other states? [read post]
10 Aug 2020, 2:17 pm
Brooking, Kate Starbird, Isabella García-Camargo and Camille Francois will discuss what can be done to tackle electoral disinformation. [read post]
