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31 May 2017, 5:30 pm
There's a sucker born every minute, goes the old saying, and several hundred of them gathered at Wellesley College last Thursday to cheer Hillary Clinton as she rehashed, complained about and justified her electoral loss by saying in different ways over and over that she is simply too good for this world. [read post]
29 May 2017, 8:24 am
That also is the case with soldiers who were more motivated by a career option and with government payments for college than a devotion to serve the country and a readiness to fight in combat. [read post]
29 May 2017, 3:00 am
If Nixon had won those two states, he would have defeated Kennedy by two votes in the Electoral College. [read post]
28 May 2017, 8:53 am
The President on Twitter this morning: "It is my opinion that many of the leaks coming out of the White House are fabricated lies made up by the #FakeNews media. [read post]
24 May 2017, 9:01 pm
It should also be noted that the Constitution, in the Twelfth Amendment, dictated that even though he did not obtain the popular vote, Donald Trump won the election under the Electoral College. [read post]
23 May 2017, 9:01 pm
Even before the Republicans decided last year to help Trump eke out his shaky win in the Electoral College, Republicans had long since turned American politics into an ugly war zone.The foundations that they have built will unfortunately remain with us, no matter what happens to Trump. [read post]
23 May 2017, 2:32 pm
(I’m not just talking about the electoral college, but also the provisions for election by the House and the Senate, both in the original Constitution and under the 12th Amendment.) [read post]
23 May 2017, 9:30 am
Last week, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed Robert S. [read post]
9 May 2017, 12:19 pm
Enraged legal academics have manufactured grotesque theories about the emoluments clause, the Electoral College, and the establishment clause just to bring him down. [read post]
4 May 2017, 5:45 pm
His election was the result of an indefensible electoral college system. [read post]
3 May 2017, 9:01 pm
” Armed standoffs and brawls in Washington and other major cities led to mass arrests, and individual members of the Electoral College received death threats. [read post]
2 May 2017, 9:01 pm
Trump lost the popular vote and, despite his frequent boasts about “easily” winning the Electoral College, barely scraped out a victory thanks to Hillary Clinton’s unpopularity, FBI Director James Comey’s poor judgment, and Russian collaboration with WikiLeaks, possibly abetted by one or more members of the Trump campaign team.But even if one assumes that there is some truth to the claim that Trump is a political genius, that genius does not extend to… [read post]
2 May 2017, 10:00 am
The public has celebrated and condemned key aspects of the U.S. constitutional system, including the Electoral College's role in selecting the President, the Senate's responsibility to "advise and consent" in the appointment of Supreme Court justices, and the war powers of the President and Congress. [read post]
1 May 2017, 8:27 am
In the American election, you have to go state by state, and this image is helpful:Basically, you could say that in the states that tipped the Electoral College to Trump, Hillary looked as though she was up by about 0.6 to 5.4. [read post]
27 Apr 2017, 1:01 am
Debs in 1912 – we “locked him up” Other topics include social Darwinism (remarkably persistent, and especially popular now among the Alt-Right), affirmative action, the Electoral college, Lincoln and his personal growth on the issue of slavery, the uses of the memory of Lincoln, the 14th Amendment, a particularly astute analysis of Barack Obama and his presidency, and September 11 and the anti-Arab, “clash of civilizations” mentality that has gained so… [read post]
24 Apr 2017, 7:54 am
Talking Points Memo put the whole thing up here. [read post]
21 Apr 2017, 6:00 am
Trump lies about small things: the size of the crowd and the weather at his inauguration, whether local dress shops had sold out of inauguration gowns, and the size of his victory in the electoral college. [read post]
20 Apr 2017, 9:00 pm
A land where no one needs to worry about a complex Electoral College or presidential electors—faithless or otherwise. [read post]
18 Apr 2017, 4:27 am
Electoral calculation ought to stop left-wingers allowing conservatives to own the inspiring idea of freedom of speech. [read post]
17 Apr 2017, 6:00 am
Ryan C. [read post]
