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Electoral College well worth the trade offs

October 27, 2020 by Trent England in Electoral College

Some people bemoan the fact that not every state in every presidential election is a toss-up, or battleground. But that’s political reality down the ballot, too. And the cost of seeing fewer televisi…

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Where do presidential electors come from?

October 15, 2020 by Trent England in Electoral College

Some questions make parents squirm. One that might come up between now and Election Day is: Where do presidential electors come from? Few people know how this works. It all starts at state political…

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Law professor warns against ‘ill-conceived’ national popular vote

October 1, 2020 by Trent England in Electoral College

Prolific author and law professor Richard Epstein published a defense of the Electoral College last Saturday in the Las Vegas Review-Journal. After a succinct description of the history leading to th…

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Even the Washington Post admits NPV would not create a ‘national popular vote’

September 29, 2020 by Trent England in Electoral College

Resistance to the National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV) today comes from an unexpected corner: Washington Post columnist Charles Lane. He correctly points out that “there is no such thing as…

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Gary Johnson’s argument for NPV upended by numbers

September 25, 2020 by Trent England in Electoral College

Does voting for a losing candidate mean the vote is “wasted,” or the voter was “disenfranchised”? Unless an election comes down to a single vote (it happens), no individual vote is decisive. But ever…

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Forgotten Colorado

September 23, 2020 by Trent England in Electoral College

Why does John Hickenlooper, locked in a tight race for U.S. Senate in Colorado, snub people who live in small towns and rural areas? Because he doesn’t need their votes. If he can get enough votes fr…

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Happy Constitution Day!

September 17, 2020 by Trent England in Electoral College

Even a simple game must have a set of rules. And when the competition is most fierce, that’s when the rules matter the most.Our Constitution provides the set of rules for governing our country. It af…

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Why do we have the Electoral College?

September 16, 2020 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College

Key Points Only two methods of selecting the president were seriously considered at the Constitutional Convention: congressional appointment or electors. Direct election was seen as impractical: too …

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National Popular Vote’s dignified death in New Hampshire

September 11, 2020 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College

The committee on Election Law in the New Hampshire House of Representatives met yesterday afternoon to consider the National Popular Vote interstate compact. The meeting wasn’t to decide the bill’s f…

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The Electoral College is not an “outlier”

September 10, 2020 by Trent England in Electoral College

It’s a line used often by critics of the Electoral College: no other country would let the candidate with fewer raw votes win the election! It’s also wrong. Charles C. W. Cooke, the editor of Nationa…

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