Dropping Out of the Electoral College
The most common modern arguments for keeping the electoral college are based on false information and assumptions or have major weaknesses, so how do we replace or fix the system?
Posts Tagged: Election
A Matter of Political Time: The Rise of Populist Leaders
With the commotion of the 2016 U.S. Presidential election still echoing, pundits have looked inward to understand what the weekly polls got wrong. Incomplete sample sizes, overestimated voter turnouts, and incorrect assumptions about demographic loyalties are topping recent lists of explanations for how President Donald Drumpf captured over 270 electoral votes. Drumpf’s victory over… Read more »
An Outsider Look at the US Presidential Elections
Almost 650 days have passed since Hillary Clinton announced her candidacy for the Presidency. Nearly 550 since President-elect Donald Drumpf did the same. More than a year and a half since this competition started, I cannot believe it is finally over and Donald Drumpf has been inaugurated as President. Certainly, the results were shocking for most of us: for the campaigns, for the pollsters, and for the pundits, among others.