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If you want to get rid of the Electoral College, you don’t understand how it works. I mean the royal “you,” not the partisan “you.” Opposition to the Electoral College…

…respondents supported canning the Electoral College for a national popular vote. Its advocates like to say the compact doesn’t get rid of the Electoral College, it improves it. The National…

…law should be. The early American experience with the Electoral College shows us why this is so. Washington’s justly deserved nationwide popularity delayed the problems of the original Electoral College…

…a geographically broader base that’s more politically, socially, and economically diverse. Federalism and the Electoral College The Electoral College is therefore a mainstay of America’s federalist system of governance, centered…

…in making elections more democratic in various ways, including eliminating or at least reducing the role of the Electoral College. Although the Democrats did not eliminate the Electoral College altogether,…

…to repeated talk about a multi-step representative process, which became the Electoral College. It’s a Good Thing the Electoral College Survived Keyssar’s main attack, however, is that the failure of…

…support from a broad coalition that encompasses many diverse states. The Electoral College Makes the President Responsive to All America Without the Electoral College, presidential candidates wouldn’t bother seeking the…

…expecting that they would vote for that candidate in the Electoral College. The course of history has shown that the Electoral College has come to be uniform in its purpose….

…(democracy). Ergo, this is a democratic republic. Ergo, an Electoral College. The Electoral College Balances Voting Power The purpose of the Electoral College is to balance voting power across states…

…Democratic voters support abolishing the Electoral College, and much of the mainstream media seems to agree. After the 2016 election, The New York Times attacked the Electoral College as an…

…people like to point out that the Electoral College couldn’t really be important since we’ve only had four elections where it was in conflict with the “popular vote.” The Electoral…

…representation in Congress limited their representation in the Electoral College. A popular vote for president was not a viable alternative to the Electoral College considered at the Constitutional Convention. Convention…

…the movement to send the Electoral College to a crematorium. The Washington Post editorial board, for example, recently renewed its call to abolish it. Abolishing the Electoral College would be…

…broke loose on the left side of the aisle. We Need a High School Civics Lesson On The Electoral College We should all know that the Electoral College was devised…

Hillary Clinton wants to abolish the Electoral College as “an anachronism that was designed for another time that no longer works.” She won the popular vote and lost the presidency…

…If You Want Real Diversity, You Want the Electoral College The Electoral College, it has been said, was constructed in some part to prevent a presidential candidate from winning an…

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…as they imagine. It’s true that Americans don’t like the Electoral College. This, considering its purpose, is educationally irrelevant. Gallup has been gauging American sentiments on the Electoral College from…

Donald Trump dominated the Electoral College, but solidly lost the popular vote. Predictably, the typical denunciations of the Constitution’s system of presidential selection have begun to appear. John Nichols’ repudiation…

Members of the House Select Committee on Jan. 6, vice chaired by Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, are preparing to launch a major assault on the Electoral College as part of…

…majority of people opposing the Electoral College, they make the exact case that Hamilton so eloquently foreshadowed. The very fact that the majority wants majoritarianism is why the Electoral College…

…illustrate difference between a popular vote and the Electoral College. It is reasonable to assume that popular voting will produce more out-of-touch progressives like Clinton, while the Electoral College will…

…can send to the Electoral College. More population equals more congressional seats. More congressional seats equal more votes in the Electoral College. To the Democrats, this is simple math —…

…watching. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z0iuWh3sek The two-and-a-half minute clip was produced by Unite for America, an organization assembled in the wake of Donald Trump’s Electoral College victory and devoted exclusively to overturning the…

…her even if their particular state went for Trump. In other words, the Electoral College should vote for Hillary Clinton because she will win the popular vote. This frustration is…

…left out of the media’s discussions of whether this or the 2016 race is winnable for Trump is the Electoral College. And for that discussion, it’s worth a look at…

…a college and get it to the point where it might succeed. A college with seed capital of $100 million would have much better odds. How many such new colleges…

…about a dozen U.S. colleges to people looking for the real deal. Other people are not only noticing the same, they’re sensibly starting to reconsider college as the default path…

…objection to move forward. The Democratic congresswoman was one of a handful of legislators who protested votes cast for the president-elect during a joint-session of Congress certifying the Electoral College…

…college system to abolish the electoral college. Since it began polling on the question in 1944, Gallup has consistently found that a substantial majority of Americans favor abolishing the electoral…

Recently I discussed how the College Board’s Advanced Placement program, pushed and sponsored by big government, fails at preparing high school students for college, much less earning them college credit…

…College Is Extremely Costly The College Affordability Act bills itself as a “down payment” on free college. Of course, all the “free college” proposals involve free public colleges. The only…

President Donald Trump pledged Sunday to push forward with a barrage of legal challenges contesting the outcome of the November election despite a pending vote of certification by the Electoral…

…“Gaming The Electoral College” article shows, such a change in Virginia’s Electoral College votes would, on 2016 voting, have produced a Dem 7 GOP 6 split. This type of vote…

…put the nightmarish presidential election of 2016 safely behind them. The Electoral College—the state-by-state way in which Americans elect presidents—rewards the candidate who builds the best national coalition. This year,…

Mollie Hemingway and David Harsanyi, senior editors at The Federalist, discuss the electoral college, Russia, Donald Trump’s relationship with the media, and “Star Wars,” all on the Federalist Radio Hour….