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In Massachusetts, A Victory for Fair Elections
Our current system for filling the highest office in the landis broken. The current Electoral College system of electing a president in separate state-by-state elections allows losers to win, creates opportunities for partisans to game the system, and leads to most voters’ preferences being essentially ignored.
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States can avoid Minnesota's recount mess
In one of those rare numerical flukes, harkening back to the 2000 presidential election in Florida, Republican Norm Coleman led Democrat Al Franken by just 215 votes out of nearly 2.9 million votes cast. A statewide recount shifted the margin by just 440 votes (0.02 percent) to Franken, but that was enough to elect him to the Senate.
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House Seat Apportionment: Media Gets It Wrong on Partisan Impact
Nearly all states are growing (indeed, every single state grew in population in the 1990s), but the Sunbelt is growing faster. Because most Sunbelt states currently are reliably Republican in presidential races, the simplistic interpretation of the 2012 shift in House seats is that Republicans will gain an electoral vote advantage.
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Harry Reid devising plan to press forward with filibuster reform, aide says
Still more good news for filibuster reform: Harry Reid is in active discussions with his caucus about moving forward with reform in the new year, and is currently devising a plan to do just that, a senior Senate Democratic leadership aide tells me.
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