National Popular Vote

This year's election may be the last one where it is possible to win the American presidency while receiving fewer votes than your opponent.

Now that Saturday has passed? Forget it. South Carolina will be lucky to see a presidential candidate in the next four years. The state and its voters effectively don't matter now they have made their choice.

The appeal of NPV is the simplicity of its message. The danger of NPV is that it will undermine the complex and vital underpinnings of American democracy.

The National Popular Vote gives us a simple way to preserve state leverage over presidential elections without amending the Constitution while still protecting us against electing a minority president.

Eleven years after the 2000 election, politicians are finally trying to reform the electoral college. Reformers want the president to be chosen by national popular vote. A popular vote system would certainly be different. But would it be better?

The attempt to undo the Founders' brilliant idea -- the Electoral College -- is a danger to the country. It threatens our peace and stability as a nation. Most often, the Electoral College functions to amplify the popular votes of the American people.

President Barack Obama's 2012 re-election campaign is already well underway. His early hires are the latest evidence of the negative effects of curren...

The root of the problem with today's presidential elections is the winner-take-all rule established by statute in nearly every state.

The process by which Congress could elect the president and vice-president is simply bizarre.

It's painful to watch these fools -- they don't know how a five-point popular vote victory almost always translates when it comes to the only metric that matters -- the Electoral College. (Hint: landslide).

Because most Sunbelt states currently are reliably Republican in presidential races, the simplistic interpretation of the shift in House seats is that Republicans will gain an advantage.

On September 21, the DC council voted by unanimous consent to approve the National Popular Vote plan. The bill now goes to Mayor Adrian Fenty for his signature.

The National Popular Vote plan builds on states' exclusive power to decide how to allocate their electoral votes. Rather than pushing for a federal change to abolish the Electoral College, the plan uses state power to make it obsolete.

Sen. Specter's decision is another nail in the office of the more moderate Republican philosophy associated with former New York governor Nelson Rockefeller.

The President-Elect flipped eight Bush states to the blue column and managed to get two states to elect a Democrat for President for the first time in nearly half a century.

As we have heard from the analysts on both sides for much of the last month, this year we saw "the perfect storm" hit the Republican party in almost every conceivable way.

Every four years, like a broken record, we are subjected to the refrain from Republicans that "this is gong to be the year the Jewish community votes Republican," but it never proves true.

It's nearly impossible to grasp the sheer gravity of this moment. All watched with gaping mouths, transfixed by pride and disbelief, as Obama appeared for the first time as the next President.

A round of electoral reform victories in key ballot measures suggest that Americans have had enough of antiquated electoral laws.

There's a special way this election may be part of history: 2008 promises to be the very last election held under the current Electoral College system.

I had the chance recently to interview two professors in the field of statistics (from Yale University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology),...

Even if the Clinton math weren't a cynical and mendacious display of disrespect for the intelligence of the American people, it would still be flagrantly contradictory on its own terms.