Entries Categorized with "National Popular Vote"
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Lower Presidential Election Turnout in Safe Republican States
- Posted: July 8, 2011
- Author(s): Neal Suidan
- Categories: Home, National Popular Vote, Reforms, FairVote
Thirteen states have voted for Republicans in every presidential election since 1980: Alabama, Alaska, Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah and Wyoming. This track record makes them the most consistently safe Republican strongholds in modern presidential politics. In 1988, these states’ turnout barely trailed that of the rest of the country, by 2.56%. But in every election since, these 13 states have fallen further behind. In 2008, their turnout was 6.22% behind the rest of the nation.
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Curing Our Democracy Part II: The Redistricting Connection and the Pitfalls of the District-Based Electoral Vote System
- Posted: July 7, 2011
- Author(s): Joe Sroka
- Categories: National Popular Vote, Reforms, Redistricting
Part II: The Redistricting Connection and the Pitfalls of the District-Based Electoral Vote System
This Part explores the interaction between redistricting and electoral vote allocation in Nebraska and Maine, demonstrating the negative consequences and offering solutions to these problems. See Part I for an introduction and discussion about the winner-take-all rule for allocating electoral votes.
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Curing Our Democracy Part I: Nebraska’s Electoral Vote Debate and the Pitfalls of the Winner-Take-All Rule
- Posted: July 7, 2011
- Author(s): Joe Sroka
- Categories: National Popular Vote, Reforms, Redistricting
Part I: Nebraska's Electoral Vote Debate and the Pitfalls of the Winner-Take-All Rule
If put on the spot, one may have difficulty articulating similarities between the states of Nebraska and Maine: the former, corn-yielding and reliably Republican; the latter, fish-producing and predominately Democratic. Yet Maine and Nebraska are the only states in the Union that presently split presidential electoral votes by congressional district rather than allocating all electoral votes to the statewide winner. In doing so, Nebraska and Maine are useful in diagnosing two conditions that plague our democracy: the current systems of partisan redistricting and presidential electoral vote allocation.
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Presidential Tracker: Following the Money...For Now
- Posted: June 28, 2011
- Author(s): Presidential Tracker, Katherine Sicienski
- Categories: Presidential Tracker, National Popular Vote
On Thursday, June 23rd, President Obama visited both Fort Drum and New York City and held a total of five events. According to the Washington Post, the three events in New York City were all Democratic National Committee fundraisers. Since his election, the President has attended a total of 59 fundraisers, 12 of which have been in New York. In fact, 50 of the president's 59 fundraisers as president have been in the ten states that donated the most money to Presidential campaigns in 2008.
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Presidential Visits: A Return to Ohio and the Influence of the Electoral System on Presidential Attention
- Posted: June 15, 2011
- Author(s): Katherine Sicienski
- Categories: Presidential Tracker, National Popular Vote
On Friday, June 3rd, President Barack Obama delivered remarks at the Chrysler Group Supplier Park in Toledo, Ohio. This was his 22nd event in the state of Ohio since assuming the presidency. Yet since his inauguration in 2009, the President has yet to hold a single event in ten states: South Carolina, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, Utah, Nebraska, Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota, or Vermont.
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Presidential Visits: Current Electoral College Rules Distort Attention
- Posted: April 20, 2011
- Author(s): Presidential Tracker, Rob Richie, Matt Morris
- Categories: Home, Presidential Tracker, National Popular Vote
Wonder why you never get to see the President? One reason may be that you don't live in a swing state. We know that presidential candidates concentrate their general election time and resources in the few states that can make or break their election. But it turns out that it's not so different once they get elected; a disproportionate amount of time is spent in those same states. One solution to this problem would be the National Popular Vote plan for president.
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Electoral College Distortions: “Winner” could lose popular vote by a landslide
- Posted: February 7, 2011
- Author(s): Matt Morris
- Categories: Home, National Popular Vote
Could Obama have won with less than 25% of the popular vote? Under the current system of the Electoral College, this scenario is plausible.
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The Constitutional Right to Vote Blog: Bush v. Gore, Ten Years Later
- Posted: December 14, 2010
- Author(s): Right to Vote Blog, Jo McKeegan
- Categories: National Popular Vote, Right to Vote Amendment, FairVote
Ten years ago, in December of 2000, the Supreme Court decided Bush v. Gore. The case remains one of the more dividing litmus tests in American politics.
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National Popular Vote passes Massachusetts state legislature
- Posted: July 30, 2010
- Author(s): Jules Leconte
- Categories: National Popular Vote
On July 27, the Massachusetts Senate approved the National Popular Vote plan for president by a 28-9 vote, three days after the final vote of the Massachusetts House passed it 116-34.
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Electoral College Reform Draws Support from Both Democrats and Republicans
- Posted: July 14, 2010
- Author(s): Jules Leconte
- Categories: National Popular Vote
"The National Popular Vote Initiative does not help one party or another. It just helps Americans in general."
– Illinois state Senator Kird Dillard (R), co-sponsor of a NPV bill.