“How Did People Vote and Who Did They Vote For?”
Michael McDonald: “You know who won the 2012 presidential election. What you may not know is which candidate did best among the different ways that people vote.”
Monthly Archives: January 2013
“Reince Priebus backs electoral vote change, but it’s state’s decision”
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: “The head of the Republican National Committee believes Wisconsin and other battleground states should change the way they allocate their Electoral College votes, but he said he is not inserting himself into how states decide to… Continue reading
“Sunday Dialogue: Is a Bigger House Better?”
NYT Sunday Review topic, including a response from Jack Rakove.
“Voter ID Battle Set to Rage Again”
“Discouraging Election Contests”
Josh Douglas has posted this draft on SSRN (University of Richmond Law Review). Here is the abstract:
This brief article offers a few proposals for discouraging losing candidates from contesting the certified result of an election. Our system encourages –… Continue reading
“Elected Judges and Statutory Interpretation”
Andrew-Aaron P. Bruhl and Ethan Leib have written this article for the University of Chicago Law Review. Here is the abstract:
This Article considers whether differences in methods of judicial selection should influence how judges approach statutory interpretation. Courts and… Continue reading
Supreme Court Grants Cert in Six Cases, But No Order in RNC v. DNC Case
Orders list here. A cert. denial in RNC may come Monday, or the case might be put off for a future conference.
“Money vs. Money-Plus: Post-Election Reports Reveal Two Different Campaign Strategies”
The Campaign finance Institute has posted this press release, with the subhead: “69% of Obama’s Itemized Donors Started with a Small Contribution; Obama’s Itemized Donors Averaged More than Five Contributions Each.”
Another View of the Section 5 Voting Rights Case
A longtime reader of the blog writes of my “What’s Lost If the Voting Rights Falls” piece at Slate:
I assume you don’t write the headlines, but can we dispense with the “strike down the Voting Rights Act” phraseology [Google… Continue reading
“How To Destroy the Filibuster: Republicans say they’ll block Chuck Hagel and Jack Lew. Democrats are using that threat to change the filibuster.”
“What’s behind all the corporate secrecy over political spending?”
Elanor Bloxham writes for CNN Money.