The American public at large is becoming increasingly sophisticated in its understanding of the Electoral College, especially with the debut of websites like FiveThirtyEight.com. The winner-take-all Electoral College system, we’ve come to realize, is responsible for much of the slice-and-dice demographic targeting used in modern presidential campaign. During the campaign season we are spoken to [...]

Seems like someone, somewhere, within the depths of the Federal bureaucracy committed an Electoral College fail–and I’m not talking about the “wrong winner” elections of 1876, 1888, and 2000.
The federal agency the Election Assistance Commission has an Overview of the Electoral College available for download on its website. You might expect an unexceptionable, just-the-facts-ma’am explanation, [...]

The Delaware House of Representatives today handily passed the National Popular Vote plan by 23-12 with both Democratic and Republican legislators joining to establish elections where every vote is equal and the candidate with the most votes wins.
Of our nation’s 99 state legislative chambers, 29 have passed the NPV plan in 18 states. It is [...]

Demography may not be destiny, say the experts, but the trends of American demographics sure seem to be favoring the Democrats – or so was the theme from a presentation I attended Friday at the American Enterprise Institute. Featuring a stellar panel of political intellectuals and moderated by Brookings’ Ruy Teixeira, the event left no [...]