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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.
Read More →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.
Read More →Gary Johnson’s argument for NPV upended by numbers
September 25, 2020 by Trent England in Electoral College
Gary Johnson says more Americans would vote Libertarian if they “felt” their votes would matter. No doubt this is true for any very small political party. But Johnson blames the Electoral College and…
Read More →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…
Read More →Happy Constitution Day!
September 17, 2020 by Trent England in Electoral College
On this day in 1787, the Constitutional Convention approved and sent to the states for ratification the document that became the Constitution of the United States.
Read More →Why do we have the Electoral College?
September 16, 2020 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
The Electoral College was ultimately chosen because it ensured the president would be independent of Congress and small states would have a voice.
Read More →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.
Read More →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.
Read More →Electoral College encourages broad coalitions, moderation
September 4, 2020 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
The Electoral College pushes presidential candidates to build large national coalitions instead of focusing on their strongest regions and constituencies.
Read More →Documentary Rebuts Claim that the Electoral College is Racist
September 3, 2020 in Electoral College
Save Our States, a non-partisan nonprofit, responded to critics who allege the Electoral College is racist. In a soon to be released documentary, “Safeguard: An Electoral College Story,” the group sh…
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