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22 Oct 2016, 2:54 pm
What is the Electoral College? [read post]
20 Oct 2016, 9:01 pm
The question before the American electorate is whether to make Trump president, not whether to take away his liberty or even his property. [read post]
20 Oct 2016, 4:02 am
We would certainly do far better as a nation if the Republican candidate acknowledged that, should he lose, he will accept the decision of the American people (or the electoral college, as the case may be). [read post]
20 Oct 2016, 1:04 am
As we enter the homestretch of the presidential election and the quadrennial bewilderment at the vagaries of the Electoral College system, it is an opportune moment to highlight that the voting standards for corporate shareholder approvals in the United States can be similarly confounding. [read post]
19 Oct 2016, 5:06 pm
By rule of the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD), for candidates to appear, they must be constitutionally eligible, appear on a sufficient number of state ballots to have a mathematical chance of winning a majority vote in the Electoral College, and have a level of support of at least 15% of the national electorate as determined by five selected national public opinion polling organizations. [read post]
19 Oct 2016, 2:13 pm
In 1776, when drafting the Constitution — and before the messy elections that would come a decade or so later — the question remained as to electoral voting: who is an Electoral College member? [read post]
17 Oct 2016, 3:03 pm
For the first 75 years, after all, states with significant numbers of slaves got a distinct bonus in the House of Representatives and the electoral college, and the ability of the "reconstructed" but not really fundamentally changed states to deprive African-Americans of the right to vote meant that losing the war in fact got them enhanced power in the House (and electoral college) because 3/5 had changed to 1/1, but with too rare exceptions,… [read post]
15 Oct 2016, 1:16 pm
So how has the Electoral College worked in practice — see my next post, The School of Electoral College. [read post]
14 Oct 2016, 4:31 pm
No matter how much of a blowout in favor of Clinton, both in terms of the national popular vote and the Electoral College, that Election Night returns show, our system does not... [read post]
12 Oct 2016, 8:21 pm
(I suppose I am doing the same thing insofar as the only conceivable way that the sociopath could be elected is because of the operation of the electoral college in a multi-candidate race). [read post]
12 Oct 2016, 9:30 am
Still unsure what barriers prevent or dissuade Native American participation in the electoral process? [read post]
11 Oct 2016, 6:11 pm
What would happen if this occurred during presidential transition, either between election day and the December 19, 2016, meeting of the electoral college; or between December 19 and the inauguration of the President and Vice President on January 20, 2017? [read post]
10 Oct 2016, 7:38 am
The more a government relies on aid and minerals, the less accountable it is to the electorate. [read post]
9 Oct 2016, 10:26 am
In a new piece for Politico, I've expanded upon (and attempted to organize more systematically) Electoral College analysis that I began in a couple of earlier posts here. [read post]
"What Happens If Donald Trump Withdraws? The Electoral College would be the Republicans' Hail Mary."
8 Oct 2016, 1:40 pm
The Electoral College would be the Republicans' Hail Mary. [read post]
8 Oct 2016, 8:46 am
In response to an email question about my previous post on this topic, I wrote this earlier this morning, and I thought it might be useful to share here as a supplement to the first post: If Trump publicly withdraws, it makes it easier for GOP leadership to orchestrate a public plan in which to explain to the electorate that by voting for "Trump/Pence" on the ballot they are actually voting for Pence/Kasich (or Pence/_______, whoever they pick for the new V-P slot). [read post]
7 Oct 2016, 10:14 pm
If these electors follow their state’s law, there probably wouldn’t be enough Electoral College votes available for the Trump alternative to win. [read post]
5 Oct 2016, 11:26 am
I used the full scope of U.S. history to make the point that, ever since the Electoral College failed to function in the way intended even after the Twelfth Amendment fix, the existing process for presidential election fails to handle adequately the existence of third (or more) candidates--and that it is not just... [read post]
4 Oct 2016, 5:15 am
In Sports Illustrated, Michael McCann reports on the court’s denial of review yesterday in a case brought by Ed O’Bannon, a former college basketball star, and other athletes against the NCAA, involving the NCAA’s rules on amateurism in college sports. [read post]
27 Sep 2016, 11:22 am
Democrats woke up on Monday to a spate of bad polls for Hillary Clinton, which brought Donald Trump to perhaps his closest position yet in the Electoral College. [read post]
