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2016 “National Popular Vote” winner… Donald Trump?
November 10, 2022 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
A critical weakness of the National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV) is the lack of an official national vote count. Instead, the compact gives the chief election official in each member state—…
Read More →Electoral Count Reform Act poses serious problems for National Popular Vote
October 7, 2022 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
There’s been a lot of analysis and commentary about legislation dubbed the “Electoral Count Reform Act” (ECRA), introduced by U.S. Senator Susan Collins (a similar bill, but with less bipartisan supp…
Read More →The Electoral College did not end Roe v. Wade
June 28, 2022 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
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
June 14, 2022 by Trent England in Electoral College
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
April 28, 2022 by Trent England in Electoral College
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?
April 20, 2022 by Trent England in Electoral College
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…
Read More →The Democrats’ democratic presidential nomination process
April 12, 2022 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
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
March 29, 2022 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
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
March 23, 2022 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
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…
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