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It's time to abolish the Electoral College - Brookings Institution

In most elections, the Electoral College has operated smoothly. State voters have cast their ballots and the presidential candidate with the most votes in a ...

Should We Abolish the Electoral College? - STANFORD magazine

Yes. By Jack Rakove, the William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies and a professor of political science. In this extraordinarily strange ...

Eliminating Electoral College favored by majority of Americans

63% of U.S. adults say the way the president is elected should be changed so that the winner of the popular vote nationwide wins the ...

It's Time to Abolish the Electoral College | The Loyola Phoenix

The 2024 presidential election between former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden could come down to a few electoral votes in a ...

It's Time to Ditch the Electoral College! - The Nation

Senator Elizabeth Warren may have said it best: “Call me old-fashioned, but I think the person who gets the most votes should win.” But under the Electoral ...

How to Finally Abolish the Electoral College - POLITICO

If Trump wins the popular vote and loses the election, it could fuel a new bipartisan movement for reform.

No matter who wins, it's time to get rid of the electoral college

Before today's election, 9.7 million Texans had already voted — 108 percent of total ballots cast there in the last presidential election. In ...

OPINION It's time to abolish the electoral college - Windy City Times

In the 2020 election, Biden received the largest popular vote of any candidate in U.S. history, defeating Trump by over 7 million votes. How did ...

Why We Should Abolish the Electoral College - The New York Times

LET THE PEOPLE PICK THE PRESIDENT The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College By Jesse Wegman. It's hard to imagine a political ...

ABA Legal Fact Check: Can the Electoral College be abolished?

Election season brings a renewed focus on the Electoral College, which ultimately picks the U.S. president, including questioning whether the practice ...

The Electoral College debate, explained : NPR

“When voters cast their ballots for a candidate for president of the United States, they are actually voting for the presidential electors who ...

Hillary Clinton: Time to abolish the Electoral College | CNN Politics

Hillary Clinton told CNN on Wednesday that it is time to abolish the Electoral College, part of a sweeping interview where the former Democratic nominee sought ...

SIGN ON: It's Time to Abolish the Electoral College - Action Network

Every American should have an equal voice in electing the President. Discourages Voter Turnout: In states where one party dominates, voters may feel their votes ...

Is It Time To Abolish The Electoral College? - YouTube

Did you know that the U.S. is one of the few democracies in the world that doesn't elect its president by some form of popular vote?

How to get rid of the Electoral College - Brookings Institution

In the 20 th century there were 25 presidential elections and none of them resulted in an Electoral College winner who lost the popular vote.

It's Time To Abolish the Electoral College | Opinion - Newsweek

The following is a lightly edited transcript of remarks made by Celeste Headlee and Andrew Tallman during a Newsweek episode of The Debate ...

It's Time to Abolish Electors - Fordham Law News

When Donald Trump won enough electoral votes in the 2016 election to become president but lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton, the ...

SCHABLIN: It is time to abolish the Electoral College - Marquette Wire

Donald Trump won 279 electoral votes while Hillary Clinton won 228 votes in the 2016 presidential election. Photo via Flickr. The popular vote ...

SIGN ON: It's Time to Abolish the Electoral College - Action Network

According to a recent Pew Research Center study, 65% of Americans favor moving away from the Electoral College in favor of a popular vote system – and we ...

Electoral College History | National Archives

The Founding Fathers established the Electoral College in the Constitution, in part, as a compromise between the election of the President by a vote in ...