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NPV would lead to bailouts for broke cities

Sep 02, 2020 by Trent England blogs

Remember that time the Electoral College saved you from bailing out New York City? If you were following the news in 1975, you might. Massive mismanagement and liberal overspending had driven the ci…

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Documentary Rebuts Claim that the Electoral College is Racist

Sep 03, 2020 blogs

Critics of the Electoral College Paint a False Narrative for Partisan Purposes. Today, Save Our States, a non-partisan nonprofit, responded to critics who allege the Electoral College is racist. …

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Electoral College encourages broad coalitions, moderation

Sep 04, 2020 by Sean Parnell blogs

Key Points The Electoral College pushes presidential candidates to build large national coalitions instead of focusing on their strongest regions and constituencies. In order to compete for the White…

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The Electoral College is not an “outlier”

Sep 10, 2020 by Trent England blogs

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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National Popular Vote’s dignified death in New Hampshire

Sep 11, 2020 by Sean Parnell blogs

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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Why do we have the Electoral College?

Sep 16, 2020 by Sean Parnell blogs

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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Happy Constitution Day!

Sep 17, 2020 by Trent England blogs

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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Forgotten Colorado

Sep 23, 2020 by Trent England blogs

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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Gary Johnson’s argument for NPV upended by numbers

Sep 25, 2020 by Trent England blogs

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

Sep 29, 2020 by Trent England blogs

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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