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Another Baseball Lesson for the Electoral College
August 8, 2024 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
My friends Michael Maibach and Tara Ross have both used the World Series to illustrate how the Electoral College works (an analogy earlier used by MIT physicist Alan Natapoff, another Electoral Colle…
Read More →Electoral College Curriculum
August 5, 2024 by Trent England in Electoral College
What is the Electoral College? Why do we have it? And why do some other countries have similar electoral systems? Understanding the Electoral College starts with answering these basic questions. That…
Read More →How the 12th Amendment affects vice presidential picks
July 5, 2024 by Michael C. Maibach in Electoral College
During this presidential campaign year, there is, as always, speculation on vice presidential choices. One feature of these conversations is that it is unwise to have presidential and vice presidenti…
Read More →School board elections shouldn’t be separate
June 5, 2024 by Sean Parnell in Elections
I recently wrote about the problem of low turnout in mayoral races, which appears to be caused by scheduling them (many of them, at least) separately from elections for federal and state elections. M…
Read More →What the Tiananmen Massacre means in the United States today
June 4, 2024 by Trent England in Foreign Threats
Thirty-five years ago today, the Chinese Communist Party directed its military to crush pro-freedom demonstrators in Beijing. Since that time, the CCP has systematically suppressed information about …
Read More →Sign up for a virtual event on the dangers of TikTok
June 3, 2024 by Harry Roth in Foreign Threats
The Institute of World Politics is hosting an event on the threat posed by TikTok, featuring The Epoch Times Senior Editor Jan Jekielek. The event will take place this Thursday, June 6, at 3:00 p.m. …
Read More →Maine Democrats Called Out
May 31, 2024 by Trent England in Electoral College
“Those in glass houses should not throw stones.” That old saying is a warning against hypocrisy, something certain Mane Democrats should consider after forcing their state into the National Popular V…
Read More →Confucius Institutes: A case study in CCP influence operations
May 29, 2024 by Trent England in Foreign Threats
In 2019, law enforcement reported that “the Chinese government [poses] a particular threat to U.S. academia” and “does not play by the same rules of academic integrity that U.S. educational instituti…
Read More →Parnell in The Center Square
May 29, 2024 by Trent England in Electoral College
Our own Sean Parnell recently had a column warning of the threat of John Koza’s National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV) in The Center Square, a new and rapidly growing provider of statehouse n…
Read More →Tara Ross and Michael Maibach explain the Electoral College
May 28, 2024 by Harry Roth in Electoral College
Save Our States distinguished fellow Michael Maibach and author Tara Ross joined the Independent Women's Network to discuss the Electoral College. With the 2024 presidential election less than six mo…
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