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29 Jun 2019, 7:36 am
To take an absolutely easy example, most Americans since 1944 have agreed that the electoral college should go; it has not because of both the inordinate difficulty of amending the national constitution (unlike many state constitutions) coupled with the all-important fact that there has been no genuine national mobilization of an aroused public demanding action. [read post]
28 Jun 2019, 5:00 pm
She dropped out of high school at sixteen, then went back to college at 52-years-old and earned a degree. [read post]
28 Jun 2019, 5:00 pm
She dropped out of high school at sixteen, then went back to college at 52-years-old and earned a degree. [read post]
26 Jun 2019, 9:01 pm
They are both equally powerful means of making the majority prevail. . . . .Tocqueville later added, albeit with some qualification, that “[i]n America all citizens who are electors have the right to be jurors. [read post]
17 Jun 2019, 9:01 pm
The electorate may blame the resulting possible increases in unsolved crime and public health problems on local officials (because they are generally the most visible level of government as to these matters) rather than the federal officials making demands on state officials. [read post]
15 Jun 2019, 8:00 am
It was the period in which the conservative movement in the electorate (to borrow from the political scientist V.O. [read post]
15 Jun 2019, 6:30 am
They point out that the electoral maps of recent elections look much like the electoral map in 1896, but with the parties reversed. [read post]
14 Jun 2019, 8:09 am
The compact will not take effect until enough states join the compact to award a majority of Electoral College votes—a threshold of 270. [read post]
14 Jun 2019, 6:30 am
The Republican Party has traded in professionals and college graduates for working-class whites, and because there are many more working-class whites than college educated whites, the loss is hardly noticeable. [read post]
13 Jun 2019, 11:12 am
.* * *Websites like FiveThirtyEight and 270toWin remind us that presidential candidates must secure a majority of votes in the Electoral College to win the presidential election. [read post]
12 Jun 2019, 9:01 pm
” After all, we all accept that he “legitimately” won the presidency only in the sense that our encrusted Electoral College system (which is one of many ugly compromises with the slave states at the nation’s founding) allowed him to win. [read post]
9 Jun 2019, 7:30 am
” Thus, he notes the fact that “fifteen jurisdictions,” who cast among them 170 electoral votes, “have signed on to the National Popular Vote compact, which would effectively neuter the Electoral College and nationalize presidential elections. [read post]
7 Jun 2019, 5:46 am
Oregon Senators on Wednesday approved SB 870, which would update the state’s electoral college process to reflect the will of the nation. [read post]
7 Jun 2019, 5:03 am
” Rebecca Friedman Lissner of the Naval War College even describes the purpose of a new American grand strategy as taming the U.S. [read post]
5 Jun 2019, 5:15 pm
Mistakes and abuses of power will be curbed by electoral competition. [read post]
3 Jun 2019, 12:16 pm
Highlights of the book are Mulroy’s support for the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (to address the Electoral College), the adoption of ranked choice voting (recently adopted by the state of Maine), and an end to gerrymandering. [read post]
31 May 2019, 8:28 am
The resulting undercount will cost states like Arizona, California, Florida, and New York a seat in Congress, votes in the Electoral College, and billions in federal funding. [read post]
30 May 2019, 9:05 pm
At the request of Republican state officials, the Supreme Court issued a series of orders temporarily pausing lower court rulings that ordered Ohio and Michigan to redraw their electoral district maps due to partisan gerrymandering. [read post]
29 May 2019, 2:57 am
This even over the express request of the prosecutor” to have the judge unseal most records [Eugene Volokh] Baltimore corruption and development, red flag law, Montgomery Countyites for private toll lanes, Yuripzy Morgan show and more in my latest Maryland policy roundup; A point I’ve been making for years about the Electoral College: one of its underrated benefits is in bolstering election integrity by much shortening the list of jurisdictions in which a material… [read post]
23 May 2019, 2:51 pm
" The Washington court summarized: Article II, section 1 of the United States Constitution grants to the states plenary power to direct the manner and mode of appointment of electors to the Electoral College. [read post]
