nationalpopularvote.com - 12/5/2008
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The National Popular Vote bill would guarantee a majority of the Electoral College to the presidential candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The bill would reform the Electoral College so that the electoral vote in the Electoral College ...
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California Should Enact The National Popular Vote Act
The Policy Report —
... The National Popular Vote, a movement to remove the electoral college and replace it with a process in which the United States President is elected by popular vote of all United States citizens is an effort currently being pursued in the United States. States amounting to 19% of the electoral votes needed to enact the law have already approved the National Popular Vote and California could be next.
From the National Popular Vote Website:
“Under the U.S. Constitution, the states have exclusive and plenary (complete) power ...
Welcome to the Club, Caroline Kennedy!
Politics Daily —
If you think that Caroline Kennedy is a member of the elite who hasn't had to claw her to the top, then you should back her for New York's open Senate seat. She's going to fit right in. That's because the Senate is an elite institution, not just in reputation and character, but at its very core. More polished, more deliberative than that mob of rabble-rousing yahoos known as the House, the Senate has long prided itself on its more "collegial" tone. The longer six-year term is meant to insulate the "elite wisdom" of its members from the brutish impulses of the stinking foul masses. In the 1950s the upper ...
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