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History of Congressional District Method for Presidential Elections Fraught with Partisan Intrigue
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Fuzzy Math
- Posted: August 9, 2007
- Categories: Research & Analysis, FairVote
- In 2000, Al Gore won the popular vote by a small margin, but lost the Electoral College vote. Gore’s margin of victory in the popular vote was 0.52%, but Bush’s Electoral College margin of victory was 0.93%. Had a congressional district allocation been in place, Bush’s electoral vote margin of victory would have been 7.06%, eight times an already distorted result. (from FairVote’s new Wrong-Way Reforms for Allocating Electoral College Votes)
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The Myth of the Recount Menace
- Posted: August 2, 2007
- Categories: National Popular Vote, FairVote
The report referenced in this article has been replaced. For updated information on recounts, see the new report: A Survey and Analysis of Statewide Election Recounts, 2000-2009
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FairVote Launches Internet Video Contest!
- Posted: July 30, 2007
- Categories: FairVote
As a chaotic presidential primary season heats up, as rumors swirl about potential third party spoiler candidacies, and as electoral reforms are being debated and implemented all across the country, the time is ripe to hear directly from the people about how best to improve the way we hold elections.
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'08ers to Big States:<br>We Only Love You for Your Money
- Posted: July 26, 2007
- Categories: FairVote
In the torrid romantic epic that is the presidential primary season, some states are wooed more vigorously than Romeo making a play for Juliet, all in the hopes of greater electoral affection come early 2008. For the states that hoped to increase their attractiveness by moving their primaries up to February 5, however, the courtship may be star-crossed. Though they may still get a shower of attention, it's not only love the candidates are after. These heart-breakin’ White House hopefuls are really engaged in some high-level gold digging. For some states, it seems, they mostly love them for their money...
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The People's House?
- Posted: July 19, 2007
- Categories: FairVote
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The 2006 midterms were, we are told, a great change election. Countless incumbents were swept from power and control shifted from one party to another in both houses of Congress. Well, at least one part of that sentence is true. While the Democrats did wind up in control, over 94% of incumbents were re-elected. The irony, of course, is that knocking off less than 6% of incumbents is considered remarkable. It sounds big compared to the less than 2% of incumbents who had lost in every election since 1996, but it still means that most incumbents had little to fear.
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E-Newsletter July 14, 2007
- Posted: July 14, 2007
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote Reformer E-Newsletters, National Popular Vote, D.C. Voting Rights, Fair Voting/Proportional Representation, Research & Analysis, FairVote
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Electoral College is #1 All-Time Constitutional Target
- Posted: July 12, 2007
- Categories: National Popular Vote, FairVote
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The framers of the Constitution wisely ensured that the act of making changes to our nation’s founding document would be difficult, time consuming, and only possible with the assent of super-majorities of both Congress, and states. Certainly, to make such an attempt would mean that the issue at hand was of astounding importance.
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Why is My D Voting Like an R?
- Posted: July 5, 2007
- Categories: FairVote
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Party label does not always determine how a member of Congress will vote on a controversial hot-button issue, but when the party line is breached there is usually a compelling reason. While there can be myriad reasons a legislator votes one way or another, there is a strong correlation between lawmakers who vote against the party line on a divisive issue and the partisanship of the state or district they represent. (State or district partisanship is determined, for our purposes, by the share of votes won by a party’s presidential nominee. A state like Alabama, for example, has a 61.6% Republican state partisanship because that is the percentage won by President Bush in 2004.)
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Electoral College Won't Keep Bloomberg Down
- Posted: June 28, 2007
- Categories: National Popular Vote, FairVote
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Do you think the Electoral College might be Bloomberg’s biggest obstacle in a race for the White House? Think again.