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The myth of 'wrong-winner' elections
November 20, 2020 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
Key Points Presidents who won without a popular-vote plurality campaigned under the rules of the time, and it is misleading to call them “wrong winner” elections based on some imaginary preferred …
Read More →Reasonable but wrong: The Washington Post’s call for abolishing the Electoral College
November 17, 2020 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
Normally I would come to bury, not praise, an editorial that calls for abolishing the Electoral College. But as I read Monday’s Washington Post editorial I couldn’t help but notice that, while genera…
Read More →National Popular Vote: Recount madness
November 17, 2020 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
Key Points NPV could require, for the first time in American history, a nationwide recount. In a close election under NPV, it would be impossible to conduct a legitimate national recount.The cour…
Read More →National Popular Vote and rural America
November 16, 2020 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
Key PointsThe interests of small-town and rural Americans have to be taken into account when trying to win statewide elections under the Electoral College.There are 223 million Americans in just thos…
Read More →The National Popular Vote Myth
November 12, 2020 by Trent England in Electoral College
Traveling around the country defending the Electoral College, I have heard an amazing array of different--sometimes contradictory--claims made by National Popular Vote (NPV) advocates. Some of this i…
Read More →No, we don't have a president-elect yet
November 10, 2020 by Trent England in Electoral College
The law determines when an election is over—not the media. Yet reporters often predict who is going to win, sometimes even before votes are counted based on lopsided polling. Other times they predict…
Read More →Saving the Electoral College
November 9, 2020 by Trent England in Electoral College
I call it a “toothpaste issue,” as in “you can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube.” If we lose the Electoral College—our state-by-state process for electing the president—we won’t get it back. And…
Read More →Colorado result puts lie to NPV ‘polls’
November 4, 2020 by Trent England in Electoral College
For years, the National Popular Vote lobbying campaign has peddled polls that claim it is overwhelmingly popular. Of course, the group pays for these polls, and most people take them with many grains…
Read More →Electoral College benefits visible as votes are counted; Colorado ‘popular vote’ measure remains close
November 4, 2020 by Trent England in Electoral College
While the outcome remains uncertain, the Electoral College is working as designed. Each state ran its own election and now each is responsible for fairly counting its votes. Any disputes will be cont…
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