Showing posts with label electoral college. Show all posts
Showing posts with label electoral college. Show all posts
Saturday, April 11, 2026

The Executive Branch: Celebrating the Semiquincentennial, Part IV

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We’re continuing our monthly series celebrating the nation’s 250 th birthday. ·        Part I: The Declaration of Independence   ·        P...
Thursday, August 1, 2019

Vote Counts, Part II

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We’re talking about counting votes, and how votes are counted. In Part I we talked about why the Electoral College is still a good idea a...
Monday, July 29, 2019

Vote Counts, Part I

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image found here Should every vote count? Yes. Should every vote be counted? Yes, in an ideal world. Should the winner be the...
Thursday, June 20, 2019

Electoral College by Design

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The National Popular Vote movement—a work-around-that-pesky-Constitution way of eliminating the Electoral College—has been progressing apa...
Monday, May 14, 2018

Population, Urban Thinking, and the Vote

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Did I ever mention that I was once a cartographer? It’s what I did as a summer job, putting myself through college. This was back before Aut...
Monday, November 21, 2016

Electorally Collegiate

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We’re not a democracy. That seems to come as a surprise to some Americans. Democracy is rule—or tyranny—by majority. The axiom is that it’s...
Monday, November 7, 2016

Longshots and Likely Outcomes

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The date that has been looming on our calendars for so very long is upon us. And then life changes. And we don’t know what our country will...