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Documentary Rebuts Claim that the Electoral College is Racist
Sep 03, 2020 blog
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. …
Read More→Electoral College encourages broad coalitions, moderation
Sep 04, 2020 by Sean Parnell blog
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…
Read More→The Electoral College is not an “outlier”
Sep 10, 2020 by Trent England blog
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…
Read More→National Popular Vote’s dignified death in New Hampshire
Sep 11, 2020 by Sean Parnell blog
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…
Read More→Why do we have the Electoral College?
Sep 16, 2020 by Sean Parnell blog
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 …
Read More→Happy Constitution Day!
Sep 17, 2020 by Trent England blog
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…
Read More→Forgotten Colorado
Sep 23, 2020 by Trent England blog
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→Gary Johnson’s argument for NPV upended by numbers
Sep 25, 2020 by Trent England blog
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…
Read More→Even the Washington Post admits NPV would not create a ‘national popular vote’
Sep 29, 2020 by Trent England blog
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…
Read More→Law professor warns against ‘ill-conceived’ national popular vote
Oct 01, 2020 by Trent England blog
Prolific author and law professor Richard Epstein published a defense of the Electoral College last Saturday in the Las Vegas Review-Journal. After a succinct description of the history leading to th…
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