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9 Jul 2022, 5:27 pm
After all, its national electoral success are based not on the popular vote, but the functional gerrymandering of the Senate, of state Congressional district lines, and of the Electoral College. [read post]
20 Feb 2019, 6:11 am
The bill, which is up for a vote in the full Senate tomorrow, Feb. 21, also expressly prohibits New Jersey’s Electoral College electors from voting for candidates who failed to file income tax returns. [read post]
4 Sep 2012, 7:00 am
When I look at the Electoral College maps, I can easily see how our 10 electoral votes could make the difference for Obama in this tight race. [read post]
22 Feb 2019, 8:01 am
The bill, which passed the Senate on Feb. 21, would also prohibit New Jersey’s Electoral College electors from voting for candidates who failed to file income tax returns. [read post]
11 Jun 2024, 12:16 pm
Here is the abstract: The Electoral College creates incentives for politicians and regulators to direct policy favors toward battleground or swing states. [read post]
6 Sep 2008, 4:47 pm
., the winner of the general election and a majority of the electoral votes-- dying before the actual tally of the electoral college vote in early January. [read post]
14 Feb 2020, 8:00 am
The 53-State Solution By Simon Barnicle, Writer and Attorney Simon Barnicle writes that adding new Democratic states could help bring the United States closer to majority-rule, and could increase pressure to add constitutional amendments to counteract current minority-rule constitutional provisions, like the Electoral College and the equal representation of senators. [read post]
16 Jul 2007, 5:44 am
The Twelfth Amendment is hereby modified to provide that separate electors shall be elected by popular vote in the states [NOTE: ALTHOUGH I WOULD GLADLY ABOLISH THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE, THIS AMENDMENT DOESN'T DO IT] with regard to choosing the President and the Vice President. [read post]
28 Apr 2008, 10:40 am
(This obviously turned out almost to be not true in 2000, but, thanks to the Supreme Court, DC's 3 electoral votes turned out to be, as no doubt intended, irrelevant.) [read post]
2 Feb 2021, 9:21 am
After months of spreading his Big Lie that he won a landslide victory in the 2020 election, leading up to and on January 6, 2021, President Trump summoned, assembled and incited a violent mob that attacked the Capitol, cost the lives of three police officers and four other people, threatened the Vice-President and Congress, and successfully halted the counting of the Electoral College vote. [read post]
15 Jul 2007, 2:45 am
But that defect is probably best laid at the door of the Electoral College, for which the cure is either a constitutional amendment or the intriguing idea of a national popular vote interstate compact.Alas, we're probably already too far into the 2008 campaign for these inherently non-partisan reforms to be adopted, because the parties and the candidates will ask whether they will benefit in the next election. [read post]
3 Mar 2020, 6:30 am
More importantly, a number of the legislative proposals that are already on the policy agenda—universal pre-K and free college tuition, paid family and medical leave, expansion of government health insurance, and felon re-enfranchisement—would go a long way to restoring faith in democratic institutions. [read post]
4 Sep 2022, 6:30 am
Eradicating the Electoral College would be a good start here as well. [read post]
23 Feb 2011, 5:01 am
This coy approach survives after the candidate is elected, until, hopefully, the electorate no longer connects the vague promises with the actual realities of the actions undertaken by the candidate turned legislator. [read post]
6 Feb 2024, 1:01 pm
Biden might well win the election (even under the absurdly anti-democratic rules that govern current elections, from the Electoral College to Republicans' aggressive -- and depressingly successful -- voter suppression efforts), but that does not mean that he would in fact be able to stay in office. [read post]
12 Dec 2016, 11:24 am
The Clinton campaign has thrown its support behind an effort by a handful of members of the Electoral College to receive a security briefing on Russian election interference before the electors vote on December 19th. [read post]
14 Dec 2020, 11:14 am
Every four years, state officials certify their electoral college votes in a routine and low-profile fashion. [read post]
11 Nov 2022, 5:31 am
Even if the current "Trump was the big loser" insta-conventional wisdom turns out to be true, the person who replaces him (whether it is my newly re-elected governor or some other MAGA Republican) will keep the foot on the gas, and all of the efforts to subvert the 2024 election will move forward.This will include another assist from the Supremes, who are likely to endorse the Independent State Legislature theory, which will give the still-gerrymandered Republican majorities in the… [read post]
20 Jan 2022, 9:49 am
I accept the finality of this outcome, which will be ratified next Monday in the Electoral College. [read post]
24 Oct 2020, 8:26 am
In part one, Anderson analyzed the function of state law procedures and the electoral college in deciding the presidential election. [read post]
