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FairVote's Top Three Electoral College Stories of the Week, February 6 to February 12, 2013
- Posted: February 12, 2013
- Author(s): Andrea Levien
- Categories: National Popular Vote, Presidential Elections, Home
Tune in every week for FairVote's favorite news items on the Electoral College and National Popular Vote.
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FairVote's Top Three Electoral College Stories of the Week: January 29 to February 5, 2013
- Posted: February 6, 2013
- Author(s): Andrea Levien
- Categories: National Popular Vote, Presidential Elections
Tune in every week for FairVote's favorite news items on the Electoral College and National Popular Vote.
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Presidential Elections State-by-State: Hardening Partisanship
- Posted: February 5, 2013
- Author(s): Andrea Levien, Rob Richie
- Categories: National Popular Vote, Presidential Elections
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Electoral College Rules and the Politics of Immigration Reform
- Posted: February 1, 2013
- Author(s): Andrea Levien
- Categories: Presidential Elections
Republican views on immigration reform are shifting to accommodate the demographics of the American electorate. Did Electoral College rules incentivize them to change their views? The answer is complex.
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Time to Change an Unpopular Vote
- Posted: January 18, 2013
- Author(s): Andrea Levien
- Categories: Presidential Elections, National Popular Vote
Once again, a Gallup poll has found that a large majority of Americans, both Democrat and Republican, would prefer a popular vote for president. It's time for state legislatures to take notice and pass the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.
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Electoral College Favored One Party Over the Other in the 2012 Election
- Posted: November 21, 2012
- Author(s): Andrea Levien, Rob Richie
- Categories: National Popular Vote, Presidential Elections
FairVote's analyses of congressional elections show a definitive tilt towards the Republican party, grounded in winner-take-all voting rules and the geographic distribution of Republican and Democratic voters. However, on the presidential level there is currently a distinct Democratic advantage, also resulting from winner-take-all rules. By reforming unfair electoral structures, we can eliminate this bias on both the legislative and executive levels.
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Magic Numbers: Small Vote Shifts in Key States Could Have Altered Electoral College Outcomes
- Posted: November 16, 2012
- Author(s): Andrea Levien
- Categories: National Popular Vote, Presidential Elections, Home
One commonly cited benefit of the Electoral College is that, even when the national popular vote for president is close, it creates a decisive victory for one candidate or the other, giving the winner more legitimacy. However, these "decisive" victories are often more tenuous than they seem. There are plenty of elections in which slight vote shifts in key states would have changed the winner of the Electoral College vote, despite the original winners' significantly larger leads in the nationwide vote.
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Tracking Presidential Campaign Field Operations
- Posted: November 14, 2012
- Author(s): Andrea Levien
- Categories: Presidential Tracker, Presidential Elections, National Popular Vote
The most visible ways that Democratic and Republican presidential candidates show favoritism for swing states are through public campaign events and ad spending. However, tracking where candidates opened field offices is another useful method of measuring candidate attention. Unsurprisingly, field office placement in the 2012 presidential election showed a strong bias towards swing states.
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2012 Presidential Election Night Scorecard
- Posted: November 2, 2012
- Author(s): Andrea Levien, Rob Richie
- Categories: Presidential Elections
Predict the winner of the national popular vote for president on election night using FairVote's measure of state partisanship!
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Presidential Campaign Attention: Why Most States Aren't Worth Any Despite Their Generosity
- Posted: November 1, 2012
- Author(s): Andrea Levien, Presidential Tracker
- Categories: Presidential Tracker, Presidential Elections, National Popular Vote
For the past two months, FairVote has been highlighting the inequality that the winner-take-all method of allocating electoral votes perpetuates: swing states are targetted and safe states are not. However, another type of inequality to consider is the inequality this rule creates between wealthy and non-wealthy safe state residents. Wealthy residents in every state are targetted at fundrairsers, as they provide a good portion of the money funding the campaigns. Low and middle income swing state residents are targetted because they provide votes that could swing a state to one candidate or another. Low and middle income safe state residents, on the other hand, are out of luck.