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I DON’T THINK THERE WILL BE ANY NEED FOR FANCY FOOTWORK: Pennsylvania Ponders Bold Democrat-Screwin…
14 Sep 2011, 7:05 pm
And reader Jason Muckenthaler writes: Democrats proposed an initiative in 2004 that would allocate the state’s electoral votes proportionately based on the states popular vote. [read post]
23 May 2017, 2:32 pm
I just came across another apparently failed solution to the problem, which was used in Maine throughout much of the 1800s; here is the Maine high court’s account: As originally established when Maine became a State in 1820, the Maine Constitution provided for the election of Senators, Representatives, and the Governor by a majority vote. [read post]
6 Jul 2009, 3:37 pm
But the Maine law may not go into effect if sufficient signatures are submitted to the state government to force a "people's veto" on the ballot. [read post]
6 Nov 2009, 8:36 pm
The Maine result on Question 1 -- the same-sex marriage issue -- is of course dispiriting to same-sex marriage advocates. [read post]
4 Jul 2020, 10:43 pm
A write-in campaign ought, I think, to require, at the very least, some pre-election filing of the slate of electors who’ll support that candidate, given that the ballots in most states don’t list the electors. [read post]
29 Oct 2014, 2:44 pm
The main new story out of the event, of course, was how Republican Gov. [read post]
1 Mar 2008, 6:20 am
But of course, as I've said before, I do not like it that politicians seem to feel the need to lie shamelessly to the electorate. [read post]
6 Mar 2015, 5:13 am
Rick Snyder won by a similar margin in a more Democratic state, even though he also picked a fight with labor.To the south, a Republican candidate for governor won the dark-blue state of Illinois.Farther away, Republicans won Ohio by a huge margin and carried states more Democratic than Wisconsin, like New Mexico, Maryland, Maine and Massachusetts.That is, it might not be anything so special about Walker. [read post]
9 Oct 2020, 6:30 am
First, in defiance of the reigning (or even raining if not pouring) conventional wisdom, the main political obstacle to electoral reform has not come from the smallest states. [read post]
24 May 2012, 7:00 am
The conventional wisdom since then has been that the ever-rising Hispanic population in Colorado has made it more likely that Obama can keep its nine electoral votes in his column. [read post]
19 Feb 2011, 7:17 pm
In 2003, faced with a new Republican majority intent on redrawing an electoral map that preserved power for Democrats that the voters no longer gave them, the Texas Democrats fled the state. [read post]
27 Apr 2016, 7:04 am
By way of background, if nobody wins a majority of the electoral votes for president, the House chooses from among the top three electoral-vote-getters, with each state’s delegation getting one vote, and a majority of states needed for victory. [read post]
4 Oct 2008, 11:11 pm
He's got to win one of seven decidedly iffy states (Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Colorado, Missouri). [read post]
5 Nov 2008, 12:56 am
OBAMA TAKES PENNSYLVANIA ; ILLINOIS, NEW JERSEY; MASSACHUSETTS; MARYLANDCONNECTICUT; NEW HAMPSHIRE; MAINE; DELAWARE; DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; OBAMA HAS 103 ELECTORAL VOTES. [read post]
26 Jul 2010, 11:11 pm
The main contributory factors were poor planning, the use of unsuitable buildings, inadequate staffing arrangements and the failure of contingency plans. [read post]
26 Oct 2020, 7:35 pm
The spread of disinformation and conspiracy theories has been identified as a problem in several states, for example in Florida, and news publications, such as the New York Times, are daily tracking viral misinformation ahead of the 2020 election. [read post]
25 Jan 2008, 7:21 am
The process has brought Vladimir Putin's muscular Kremlin into open conflict with Germany, Great Britain, France and the United States. [read post]
4 Nov 2009, 10:21 am
But I don't get the sense that the supposed erosion of religious liberty was the main Maine issue or that broader protection would have made an electoral difference. [read post]
20 Dec 2010, 11:01 am
Emanuel’s Chicago residency was preserved by the statute providing that ‘[n]o elector…shall be deemed to have lost his or her residence in any precinct or election district in this state by reason of his or her absence on business of the United States, or of this State. [read post]
22 Nov 2008, 11:59 pm
Using a ‘Take the Hill’ campaign to win the legislature, they largely avoided hammering such issues as abortion and immigration in favor of campaigning on lower taxes, among other economic issues, to appeal to independents, who make up 30% of the state’s electorate. [read post]
