Explore the strategic nuances and electoral implications of third-party candidacies in American politics

First-past-the-post/district-based electoral systems produce distortions in many places, including the US. But yesterday's Quebec election takes the cake. The ruling right-wing nationalist CAQ party converted

I really like two things about it. One... It completely does away entirely with the "I'd vote for them but they can't possibly win" argument, because if your vote matters it'll eventually go

I’m no expert on voting laws, but I do wonder about the legitimacy of this latest round of moves and counter-moves by the Republican-led state of Texas and the Democratic-led federal Department of Justice.

In the last 30 years, the GOP has only won the popular vote in one presidential election, with 2004 and lost it every other time. This might make some sense if looking at 2020. The states which voted for

Recent reading led to me thinking about and writing down my thoughts about current electoral systems

FOUR REASONS FOR TELLING TRUMP TO GO AWAY. I voted for Trump in the 2016 general election and again in the 2020 general election. Perhaps more accurately, I voted AGAINST Hillary Clinton in 2016 and AGAINST

Calling on the military to prevent an electoral theft of the presidency is a far worse thing than the electoral theft itself would be. Let's assume for a moment that the Democrats did in fact steal the

Nos toca un muy grande periodo de reaprendizaje, por qué? Está pasando que lo que dábamos como hechos ciertos, ya no lo son. Los sucesos que por ejemploestamos viendo alrededor de las elecciones en EE.

I think phrases like "will of the people" or "the people have spoken" are incoherent gibberish due to things like Arrow's theorem and the work of others, including Buchanan and Tullock.

Critics say the electoral college erases some people's voices. But majority rule already erases the voice of the losing minority. The flaw in the electoral college is a flaw in any system that doesn't

I'm arguing the electoral college with some folks, and I want to make two points for everyone to see. The electoral college was nothing more than a compromise over how to select the president, between

There's more at stake in the battle over how we elect our president than merely who sits in the White House. The cartoonist Ramirez is typically piercingly brilliant but he got the caption on this cartoon

This is a nice graphic. One of the persistent lie level irritations caused by conservatives is their pretence or misunderstanding that the amount of territory your votes cover doesn't matter. The electoral

The issue of climate change was invoked in the election campaign on Sunday, at the dawn of a week of climate that will culminate in the big demonstration on Friday in the presence of activist Greta Thunberg.

I want to address Andrea Ocasio-Cortez’s comments on the electoral college. Her understanding of it is deeply mistaken, but she does make one valuable claim about expanding it if we don’t eliminate it.

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