FairVote Blog
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FairVote's Top Three Electoral College Stories of the Week: January 29 to February 5, 2013
by Andrea Levien // February 6, 2013 //Tune in every week for FairVote's favorite news items on the Electoral College and National Popular Vote.
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Electoral College Rules and the Politics of Immigration Reform
by Andrea Levien // February 1, 2013 //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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Czech Republic Holds First Popular Election for President
by Sara Helmi, Devin McCarthy // January 30, 2013 //On January 26, Czech citizens had the chance to directly elect their president for the first time since the breakup of Czechoslovakia in 1993. They used a national popular vote with a majority runoff to do it.
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Israeli Election Results Show Responsiveness of Proportional System
by Devin McCarthy // January 24, 2013 //As Tuesday's Israeli elections show, proportional representation systems guarantee that voters can change their government when they are unsatisfied with its performance.
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President Obama's First Four Cabinet Picks: So Male and So Pale
by Patricia Hart // January 23, 2013 //As President Obama's second-term Cabinet takes shape, the gender and ethnic composition of his team is drawing criticism from the Center of American Women in Politics, the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda Coalition and New York Democrat Charles Rangel, one of the longest serving black members of Congress. With white men nominated to the first four positions (secretary of defense, secretary of state, secretary of the Treasury and CIA director), it's time to start asking for a government that looks like America.
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Time to Change an Unpopular Vote
by Andrea Levien // January 18, 2013 //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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NRCC Targets Foreshadow Power of Partisanship in 2014 Elections
by Devin McCarthy // January 18, 2013 //The power of partisanship in governing outcomes had led Republicans to make their top seven targets the only Democrats representing a district were Barack Obama's 2008 presidential election trailed his national average by more than four percentage points.
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The Best Electoral College Stories of the 2012 Presidential Campaign
by Devin McCarthy // January 15, 2013 //With the campaign season behind us, this post revisits the news stories of the 2012 presidential campaign that best captured the the distortions and unfairness caused by the winner-take-all Electoral College system.
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Democrats' Edge in House Popular Vote Would Have Increased if All Seats Had Been Contested
by Devin McCarthy // January 9, 2013 //A new FairVote analysis suggests that if both parties had run candidates in all 435 districts in the U.S. House elections in 2012, the Democratic margin of victory in the popular vote would have been even greater than its edge in the raw vote - a further indication of the partisan skew existing in current congressional elections.
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Putin Orders Return to Parallel Electoral System for Russian Duma
by Sara Helmi, Devin McCarthy // January 7, 2013 //Do not be fooled by Vladimir Putin's claims that the reintroduction of single-member, winner-take-all seats to the Russian Duma will be a step towards a fairer and freer democracy in Russia. It is instead a step towards the continuation of one-party rule.