“A national popular vote would make every vote for president count”
Retired Oregon Chief Justice Paul de Muniz has written this oped.
Category Archives: electoral college
“Eric Holder slams electoral vote tinkering”
Republican electoral vote tinkering, that is.
Fairvote Takes on Adam Liptak on Small States and the Electoral College
“(Unpersuasive) Challenges to the National Popular Vote Plan: Part One in a Series of Columns”
“2013 Edition of Every Vote Equal: The case for the National Popular Vote Plan”
FairVote: “This new edition features an expanded section addressing myths about the Electoral College and the National Popular Vote, with a wide-ranging information about recounts, the effects of extreme weather on elections, out-of-state presidential electors, and much, much more.… Continue reading
“Inquirer Editorial: Another attempt to rig presidential elections”
See here. And see this editorial on NPV.
“California and the Limits of Independent Redistricting Commissions with Winner-Take-All”
FairVote:
Three months after the 2012 election, independent redistricting continues to gain attention as a panacea for American congressional elections. Making the case from the quantitative flank is Sam Wang, professor of neuroscience at Princeton and founder of the… Continue reading
Map of the Day
And Now the Electoral College Gambit in Pennsylvania Will Fail
CBS Philly reports. See also The GOP’s Electoral Vote Gambit: Reasonably Popular but Doomed, which notes that winner-take-all electoral college allocations now are polling more popularly with Democrats than with Republicans.
Surprised about the collapse of the GOP… Continue reading
Will GOP Start Supporting National Popular Vote?
Interesting TPM article.
I’ll go out on a limb and say that after this brief flirtation we will fall into the familiar pattern of NPV being supported only in states with Democratic legislatures.
“The GOP’s Bad Fixes to the Electoral College”
“Why the GOP’s electoral vote gambit won’t work”
The Fix: “A Republican-backed plan to change the way certain states allocate electoral votes has fizzled as quickly as it sprung onto the national consciousness. The slate of upcoming 2014 governor’s races is a major reason why that happened.”… Continue reading
“GOP’s Three-Fifths Compromise; The party’s new voting scheme to win the White House: Rig the Electoral College.”
The Root reports.
I’m still betting against this happening.
And then There Was One
Pennsylvania as the last possible GOP state looking to change their electoral college allocations this time around.