National Popular Vote Is Good for All Americans

This post was written with my colleague Andrea Levien. Rather than take a point-by-point rebuttal to the two commentaries discussed in this piece, we discuss thematic issues with several opponents’ portrayals of the National Popular Vote plan. Our corrections to Seth Lipsky’s commentary are far more modest (that is, to the role of the 2000 election in the National Popular Vote effort and to the suggestion that our current rules were responsible for presidents like Washington, Lincoln, and Reagan) than our corrections to the New York Post’s inaccurate suggestion that...