Content Categorized with "National Popular Vote"
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2008's Shrinking Battleground and Its Stark Impact on Campaign Activity
- Posted: December 4, 2008
- Categories: National Popular Vote, FairVote
Both major party candidates in the 2008 presidential election made an ambitious promise upon effectively securing their party’s nominations —to wage nationwide campaigns and reach out to as many voters in as many states as possible. But the candidate's good intentions were undercut by the political reality created by the current Electoral College system and states’ use of the winner-take-all rule. Under that winner-take-all rule, candidates have no reason to poll, visit, advertise, organize or pay attention to the concerns of states where they are comfortably ahead or hopelessly behind.
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Ensure that every vote counts
- Posted: November 30, 2008
- Author(s): John R. Koza
- Publication: Times Union
- Categories: National Popular Vote, FairVote
National Popular Vote's John Koza comments on low voter turnout in safe states during the 2008 Presidential election, despite record-breaking turnout levels in key battleground states. -
Flunking the Electoral College
- Posted: November 19, 2008
- Categories: National Popular Vote, FairVote
New York Times editorial speaks out strongly against the Electoral College and favors the National Popular Vote movement. -
Shift of fewer than 400,000 votes could have swung the election in McCain?s favor
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Every Vote Should Count, From Sea to Shining Sea
- Posted: November 5, 2008
- Author(s): Rob Richie
- Publication: New York Times
- Categories: National Popular Vote, FairVote
Letter to the Editor from FairVote's Rob Richie calling for a National Popular Vote for President to make sure that everyone's vote is counted equally. -
Historic Election Promises Major Reform
- Posted: November 5, 2008
- Categories: National Popular Vote, FairVote
2008 was an historic election in terms of the election of the first African American to be president and the largest number of voters at the polls in our history. But in this modern age, there is no excuse for privately-owned voting machines that breed mistrust, confusing ballot designs, polling places with long lines, voter registration laws that leave nearly a third of Americans off the rolls, an Electoral College system that undercuts equality and voting methods that suppress voter choice and stifle fair representation.
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Time to get rid of the Electoral College
- Posted: November 5, 2008
- Categories: National Popular Vote, FairVote
Miami Herald endorses direct election of the President and the National Popular Vote plan. -
Only Presidential Election Reform Will Bring Change
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Ohio is still the political heartland
- Posted: November 2, 2008
- Author(s): William Hershey and Laura A. Bischoff
- Publication: Dayton Daily News
- Categories: National Popular Vote, FairVote
Dayton Daily News cites FairVote's 2008 Campaign Tracker, which shows Ohio to be in the campaign spotlight. -
Our Skewed Electioneering Could Be Fixed
- Posted: November 2, 2008
- Author(s): Neal Peirce
- Categories: National Popular Vote, FairVote
Citing FairVote executive director Rob Richie, syndicated columnist Neal Peirce advocates for the National Popular Vote plan.