Showing posts with label presidential elections. Show all posts
Showing posts with label presidential elections. Show all posts
Thursday, November 6, 2025

Thermostatic Activism

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A  number  of  posts   have   discusse d  the  politics  of  protest Bruce Mehlman : Out-party voters are energized, active and loud. In-pow...
Saturday, September 13, 2025

God Votes?

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  Many   posts   have   discussed   the   role  of  religion  in  American life . Chip Rotolo at Pew: What role do Americans think God playe...
Tuesday, September 2, 2025

Lawyers and Presidential Tickets

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 Bruce Mehlman: Every Democrat nominated for President or Vice President for the past 40 years was a lawyer until Tim Walz. (21/22 D’s &...
Friday, June 27, 2025

Election Coalitions

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From Pew Research:  
Monday, November 4, 2024

Electoral Count Act

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  Many  posts  have  discussed  the  legal aspects  of  elections . From CRS : The Electors Clause of the Constitution (Article II, Section...
Sunday, October 6, 2024

Not Since 1976...

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Many posts have discussed presidential elections . Bruce Mehlman notes that 1975 was the last presidential race without a Bush, a Clinton...
Thursday, October 3, 2024

Popular Vote Margins

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 This presidential election is likely to be close.  This guess rests not only on current polls but also recent history. Winner's popular...
Friday, September 27, 2024

Americans Still Oppose the Electoral College

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Jocelyn Kiley at Pew: The Electoral College allocates a number of electors based on how many senators and representatives each state has i...
Thursday, August 29, 2024

Polling 2024

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 Many  posts  have  discussed  the  problems  of  surveying   public opinion  in the 21st century. Scott Keeter and Courtney Kennedy at Pew:...
Friday, August 2, 2024

Veeps Running for President

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The current situation is unusual.  Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Harry Truman, and Lyndon Johnson all stepped down after one elected ...
Monday, July 22, 2024

Presidential Dropouts

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  Louis Jacobson at PolitFact : By now, most of us are used to living in "unprecedented times." But just how unprecedented is Joe ...
Saturday, June 1, 2024

Felons and the Presidency

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  Samuel Strom at FindLaw : Does a criminal indictment or conviction prevent someone from running for president? Not necessarily. The Consti...
Thursday, April 20, 2023

Counting Electoral Votes

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Joseph M. Bessette and Gary J. Schmitt have a report at AEI titled Counting Electoral Votes: How the Constitution Empowers Congress—and Not ...
Tuesday, April 4, 2023

"The office is more important than any individual person."

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  This Week interview with Asa Hutchinson: KARL: You suggested recently that if Trump were to get indicted that he should drop out of th...
Friday, November 11, 2022

Mortality and Contingent Election

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I am going to re-up this April 2020 piece I wrote for the @thedispatch about the "dead nominee" problem, which Congress should ha...
Saturday, August 6, 2022

Americans Want to Scrap the Electoral College

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Rebecca Salzer and Jocelyn Kiley  at Pew: Around six-in-ten U.S. adults (63%) say the way the president is elected should be changed so tha...
Sunday, June 12, 2022

Lincoln 1864

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In her statement Thursday night, Liz Cheney mentioned that, before 2020, presidents had always been willing to accept electoral defeat.  She...
Saturday, May 1, 2021

The 2020 Election

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Nathaniel PersilyCharles Stewart III have an article at The Journal of Democracy titled " The Miracle and Tragedy of the 2020 U.S. Ele...
Sunday, January 3, 2021

Nixon Announces that JFK Has Won

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On January 6, 1961, after the official counting of the electoral votes in a joint session of Congress, Vice President Richard Nixon announce...
Monday, December 14, 2020

Electoral Vote: What Happens Today

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 From CRS: December 14, 2020: Electors Vote in Their States Monday after the second Wednesday in December of presidential election years is...