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Sep 23 2023
News
Dallas Dem Party blasts 'self centered' mayor's 'values' for switching to GOP: 'Insult to the electorate'
Texas Democrats are slamming Dallas, Texas, Mayor Eric Johnson after he announced on Friday that he will officially leave the party and become a Republican. "I think this today's announcement is nothing short of an insult to the electorate, specifically here in Dallas County and the city of Dallas," Kardal Coleman, chair of the Dallas County Democratic Party, told Fox News Digital on Friday. "
Fox News (Online News)
Aug 23 2023
News
Eastman, elector-plan proponent, surrenders
ATLANTA -- John Eastman, the conservative attorney who pushed a plan to keep Donald Trump in power, surrendered to authorities Tuesday on charges in the Georgia case alleging an illegal plot to overturn the former president's 2020 election loss. Eastman was booked at the Fulton County jail and is expected to have an arraignment in the coming weeks in the sprawling racketeering case. He was
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Oct 22 2012
Humor
An education about the Electoral College
Mo Rocca, host of the film "Electoral Dysfunction" airing on PBS, helps us understand just what the Electoral College is, how it affects our choosing the president, and introduces us to one lawmaker's plan to abolish it.
Sep 22 2023
News
Evangelical Colleges Celebrate Best-Ever Enrollment Numbers
Eleven evangelical college and universities have announced record enrollment this fall—which is a record for breaking records, as far as anyone in Christian higher education remembers.
Asbury University saw enrollment jump 20 percent, while East Texas Baptist University’s student population climbed above 1,800, the highest in the school’s 111-year history. Abilene Christian University
Christianity Today
Jan 06 2021
News
Republicans object to Electoral College certification
Republicans objected to certifying the Electoral College count on Wednesday in a final effort to overturn the 2020 election results.
Why it matters: President Trump and his allies have no other path to change the election and are relying on this last ditch effort that will ultimately confirm Joe Biden as the next president.
Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas)
Axios
Dec 31 2020
Opinion
Trump’s Embarrassing Electoral College Hustle
President Trump’s last and worst shot at overturning the 2020 election will come on Jan. 6, as the new Congress meets in joint session to tally the votes from the Electoral College. Mr. Trump wants Republican lawmakers to lodge formal objections to Joe Biden’s electors, and this kamikaze mission already has a few volunteers.
Here’s what would happen next, at least according to the
Wall Street Journal (Opinion)
Aug 03 2020
Background
Do You Understand the Electoral College?
Do you understand what the Electoral College is? Or how it works? Or why America uses it to elect its presidents instead of just using a straight popular vote? Author, lawyer and Electoral College expert Tara Ross does, and she explains that to understand the Electoral College is to understand American democracy.
Prager University
Aug 03 2020
Top Argument
The Electoral College: Top 3 Pros and Cons
The debate over the continued use of the Electoral College resurfaced during the 2016 presidential election, when Donald Trump lost the general election to Hillary Clinton by over 2.8 million votes and won the Electoral College by 74 votes. The official general election results indicate that Trump received 304 Electoral College votes and 46.09% of the popular vote (62,984,825 votes), and
ProCon.org
Aug 03 2020
Opinion
Why We Need the Electoral College
Donald Trump’s election with fewer popular votes than Hillary Clinton has raised again the question of why the presidency is decided through an Electoral College and not a popular vote. Mr. Trump himself said in a recent interview said that a popular vote seems more sensible.
Many people who are currently calling for the abolition of the Electoral College, however, don’t realize the
RealClearPolitics
Jul 21 2020
Analysis
A definitive case against the Electoral College
Why the framers created the Electoral College — and why we need to get rid of it.
One of the biggest problems with American democracy is that it’s not democratic.
Two of the last five presidents were elected despite losing the popular vote, more than half the Senate is elected by roughly 18 percent of the population, and voting districts are increasingly gerrymandered in ways
Vox