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Landsburg, Steven

November 11, 2020

The Wall Street Journal

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 …

Every four years, millions of Americans wind up on the losing side and thus disappointed by the presidential election. These wins and losses too often color how we see our political institutions. Thi…