Posted in seeker, tagged electoral college, liberal on February 27, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I came across Reality: America Isn’t Conservative. It’s from 2007, but this part is timeless:
The Economist’s editors — and all their once triumphal comrades — might have avoided such foolish predictions if they had paid more attention to the nuances of American politics and less to the self-serving propaganda of the Republican noise machine. They [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged election, electoral college on December 14, 2007 | 2 Comments »
NJ could be Electoral College dropout:
The state Assembly is expected to vote on a measure today that would place New Jersey in an interstate agreement requiring the state’s electors to cast their vote for president and vice president based on the national popular vote winner — effectively circumventing the Constitution by changing the way presidents [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged electoral college on December 8, 2007 | 60 Comments »
A few years ago, I was obsessed with the USA’s Electoral College. (The quick version: it thwarts democracy, as seen in the 2000 election, but even though the Democrats have been shafted three times in presidential elections by the Electoral College, they support it because it props up the USA’s two-party system. The Democrats would [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged electoral college on November 21, 2004 | No Comments »
According to Nicholas Kristof, “if just 21,000 voters had changed their votes in Nevada, New Mexico and Iowa, the electoral vote would have been tied and the choice of the president would have gone to the House.” He has some nice thoughts about fixing our elections.
