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The Electoral College did not end Roe v. Wade
Posted by Sean Parnell on Jun 28, 2022
The Supreme Court’s decision striking down the landmark Roe v. Wade decision has sparked a political and social firestorm, with many sharply criticizing the court’s decision while others praise it. S…
Read More →January 6th committee member has it backward
Posted by Trent England in Threats on Jun 14, 2022
A member of the January 6th Select Committee, Rep. Jamie Raskin is one of the most far-left members of Congress. He represents Maryland’s extremely Gerrymandered eighth district, which is dominated b…
Read More →The latest silly partisan attack on Electoral College
Posted by Trent England on Apr 28, 2022
Usually, it’s Democrats claiming that the Electoral College hurts their party, but sometimes a Republican gets in on that game. Columnist Rachel Alexander recently regurgitated a series of National P…
Read More →Are Democrats at a structural disadvantage?
Posted by Trent England on Apr 20, 2022
Candidate Joe Biden walking with supporters at an event in Clear Lake, Iowa. Photo by Gage Skidmore A recent New York Times column by Ross Douthat asks whether “Democrats [will] soon be locked out of…
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The Democrats’ democratic presidential nomination process
Posted by Sean Parnell on Apr 12, 2022
I recently wrote about how the Democratic Party selects its national leadership and how it recognizes that while “one person, one vote” is a “sacred principle” of democracy (as stated in the party pl…
Read More →Noncitizen Voting and National Popular Vote
Posted by Sean Parnell on Mar 29, 2022
I wrote the other day about the irresponsible and wildly inaccurate claims made by a National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV) lobbyist regarding the effect of illegal immigration on the Elector…
Read More →NPV lobbyists’ myths about illegal immigrants and the Electoral College
Posted by Sean Parnell on Mar 23, 2022
There’s a story (possibly apocryphal) of Nobel-prize-winning theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli saying of a student’s paper, “This isn't right. It's not even wrong.” I think Pauli was trying to con…
Read More →NPV lobbyists’ inconsistency on post-election shenanigans?
Posted by Sean Parnell on Mar 10, 2022
One of the biggest problems with the National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV) is that states might try to pull out of the compact after Election Day or find another way to circumvent it if they…
Read More →Time is running out
There is a real, immediate threat to the constitutional way we elect our president. National Popular Vote is 72% of the way to implementing their dangerous plan.