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25 Jan 2017, 9:01 pm
The Obama era is over, and his successor is not Hillary Clinton. [read post]
25 Jan 2017, 1:00 am
Posted by Vyacheslav Fos, Boston College, on Wednesday, January 25, 2017 Editor's Note: Vyacheslav Fos is Assistant Professor of Finance at Boston College Carroll School of Management. [read post]
22 Jan 2017, 12:16 pm
I wanted to point out, respectfully, that democracy is the Electoral College system that saw Trump turn the map from blue to red. [read post]
20 Jan 2017, 6:20 pm
And then when they were done with that, they even tried to get involved in college football! [read post]
20 Jan 2017, 12:01 am
The Twentieth Amendment moved the President’s start date up to January 20 – two weeks after the Electoral College’s votes are certified by the president of the Senate. [read post]
19 Jan 2017, 6:00 pm
While Trump has, both during the election campaign and since his Electoral College victory, threatened to violate the Constitution in numerous ways, the presidential transition brought to the fore a host of potential ethical and financial conflicts of interest that undermine the Constitution in a pervasive way: by casting doubt on the longstanding American value of the impartiality in government decisionmaking. [read post]
19 Jan 2017, 10:45 am
That this occurs on the day after the inauguration of the most disliked president-elect in the nation's history-- a man who lost the popular election by 2.8 million votes but won the presidency through the antiquated mechanism of an unrepresentative electoral college that was established to assist slaveholding states and operates today to deny the vote to anyone who voted for his opponent in states that award the entire state pot of votes to a person who may have won by a… [read post]
19 Jan 2017, 10:45 am
That this occurs on the day after the inauguration of the most disliked president-elect in the nation's history-- a man who lost the popular election by 2.8 million votes but won the presidency through the antiquated mechanism of an unrepresentative electoral college that was established to assist slaveholding states and operates today to deny the vote to anyone who voted for his opponent in states that award the entire state pot of votes to a person who may have won by a… [read post]
18 Jan 2017, 9:01 pm
The people’s role can be broken down into two elements.First, the people choose our elected representatives including the president (though their role is mediated here by the Electoral College) and members of Congress; that is their moment of greatest power. [read post]
18 Jan 2017, 4:55 am
Donald Trump undoubtedly hates procedure, because it may interfere with his focus on substantive ends (unless procedure furthers his substantive ends--see College, Electoral). [read post]
18 Jan 2017, 4:44 am
Even if there weren’t valid concerns about the legitimacy of his electoral victory, given his over loss in the popular vote, electoral college victories in states with significant disenfranchisement issues, and the selective meddling, including in potentially criminal ways, by foreign powers, it would not be time. [read post]
15 Jan 2017, 8:38 pm
Let's start with low-hanging fruit: Why isn't there a national movement, beginning yesterday, to get rid of the indefensible electoral college? [read post]
15 Jan 2017, 12:16 pm
The politically correct crowd was so certain of its ability to name the next President that it shattered on the shoals of the Electoral College. [read post]
15 Jan 2017, 8:38 am
Although it would be unprecedented for someone other than the winner of the electoral college to be inaugurated on Friday, this has been a year of unprecedented happenings,... [read post]
12 Jan 2017, 9:01 pm
Last November’s contest reminds us that the electoral college system has deep flaws, including the inequality of votes around the country, the relative lack of attention non-swing states receive, and problematic possibilities concerning how much constitutional independence members of the so-called electoral college enjoy to vote however they want. [read post]
11 Jan 2017, 9:01 pm
When Hillary Clinton lost the Electoral College vote, I assumed that our long national debt-ceiling nightmare was over, because Republicans would not want to put their president in the position of facing a global debt crisis. [read post]
6 Jan 2017, 2:52 pm
Said Joe Biden.It happened today: The victory of Donald Trump in the Electoral College was certified in a joint session of Congress. [read post]
6 Jan 2017, 10:11 am
The electoral college itself operates by a simple majority.Third, it would still require bi-partisan assent. [read post]
6 Jan 2017, 6:50 am
Those predictions inform campaign strategy and often dictate how a candidate interacts with the electorate. [read post]
5 Jan 2017, 4:09 pm
This means that the electoral college began functioning differently in a world dominated by political parties and so the enforcement of the Constitution in this respect changed. [read post]
