Content Tagged with "Electoral College"
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Growing Polarization - The Roots of an Increasing Lack of Competition in Federal Elections
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Growing Polarization
- Posted: August 23, 2007
- Categories: FairVote
In lecterns in New Hampshire, town hall meetings in Iowa, and television studios inside the Beltway, candidates, pundits, and just about everyone else bemoan the growing polarization of the American electorate. As the political tectonic plates slowly shift, the seismic shocks cause the fault lines between red and blue to rent themselves even farther apart, while swing voters scramble so as not to fall into the widening gap. Surely, it can’t be as bad as all that!
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National Popular Vote on the Ballot in California?
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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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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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The Electoral College Won't Keep Bloomberg Down - A FairVote Analysis
- Posted: June 29, 2007
- Author(s): Paul Fidalgo
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, National Popular Vote
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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.