How To Stop The GOP's Electoral College Scheme: The National Popular Vote
As most here know, the national Republican party has now officially endorsed a scheme to make it all but impossible for a Democrat to win the White House, by splitting up the electoral votes of states...
View ArticleVA State Republicans want to nullify your vote
This is not pretty at all.Here's the gist of what's going on here. Obama won the popular vote in VA in 2008 and 2012, and so won all thirteen of Virginia's electoral votes. He won the popular vote, so...
View ArticleGOP now wants to vote-rig NATIONWIDE, with ALEC
In just the past 24 hours, there has been a growing cascade of reporting on the GOP vote-rigging effort and the National Popular Vote effort to stop it. Here's the latest from all over the internet:The...
View ArticleStates Now Voting to Abolish Electoral College, About to Pass Halfway Point
A nationwide plan to abolish the electoral college is quickly making serious progress. Already, states with 132 electors have pledged their electoral votes to the winner of the National Popular Vote....
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New bill is filed to split Florida's electoral votes.
Republican state Representative Ray Pilon filed a proposal that would end Florida’s “winner takes all” practice of awarding all the electoral votes to the presidential candidate that carries the...
View ArticleBernie’s Revolution needs NEW Voters, Congressional Candidates, & 2-way...
What are keys to Bernie’s proposed “Revolution”? Most important are one thing we know, and another thing we need to know.I. Dkos readers know that:1. “Both parties sell me out so I don’t bother...
View ArticleIs Trump saying - Those Killed in Action are also Losers ?
Was Donald Trump ever actually recorded saying the words of this title? "...... those G.I.s who get killed have wasted all the money we spent training them and their families will get their check from...
View ArticleCan Sanders win without carrying Pennsylvania?
Could Bernie Sanders win the required 270 electoral votes in November 2016 if he does not carry Pennsylvania?No candidate as far "left" or "liberal" as Senator Sanders has EVER carried the state of...
View ArticleWho wins the Blue states?
So let’s take a look at who has won states won by Obama, either both times or one time, and how many electoral votes each has.Start with those Obama won both timesSanders has won the following:NH 4VT...
View ArticleThe Coming Landslide: 381 Electoral Votes and Counting...
It appears now that Hillary and Trump will be the general election candidates. As far as Trump goes, even if he fell short of the 1,237 delegates, he would still be able to latch onto the 39...
View ArticleThe status of the race now - Pollster & 538
Having just seen what each has to say. I will present 3 columns, in each case giving figure for Clinton first.I will make some comments at the endWHAT Pollster.com poll avgs...
View ArticleWhat would a +10 electoral map look like?
xThe 538 Nowcast now has Mississippi within 4pts, Texas within 3, Missouri within 0.5. What +10 nationally looks like pic.twitter.com/kREd89a0CVâ Will Jordan (@williamjordann) August 9, 2016That’s...
View ArticleSam Wang is Bullish on Hillary: 285 Safe EVs; +6.3 Meta-Margin; 96% Win...
I just wandered over to Sam Wang’s Princeton Election Consortium and found that Wang has posted what I think are his best-ever projections for a likely Clinton victory. If you’re familiar with PEC,...
View ArticleA few observations on new McClatchy/Marist poll - Small update
taken from examining the complete details/crosstabs of the poll.This is unweighted, according to McClatchy. Nevertheless their sample seems quite reasonable.In each demographic they provide the...
View ArticlePredictors trending up as post debate polls come in
Just took a look over at Who Will Be President at the New York Times Upshot blog.Several days ago Clinton’s odds were 70%. This morning they are up to 74%Their state by state percentages are also...
View ArticleIf No Candidate Wins Electoral Vote Majority, Republican-controlled House...
By Karen Rubin, News & Photo FeaturesRachel Maddow was incorrect to suggest that if no presidential candidate gets 270 electoral votes it will be handed to the short-handed Supreme Court to decide....
View ArticleState of the race - getting better, not yet done
What i mean by my title is that we do not yet know the final results, although I am prepared to argue that the Presidential race is pretty well baked.Election day is 4 weeks from tomorrow, by which...
View ArticleSome thoughts on new Post/ABC poll - no need to panic
writing this as a result of looking at the questions and responses here and checking the trend lines hereFirst, as compared to one month ago, Clinton is up 1, Trump down 1. Second, Obama won in 2012 by...
View ArticleNew polls - clear advantage for Clinton in battlegrounds
as you can read in a Washington Post story titled Clinton holds clear advantage in new battleground polls.Hillary Clinton holds a decisive advantage over Donald Trump in the competition for votes in...
View ArticleTo put in context how solid Clinton's chances are
consider a remark by Harry Enten of Five Thirty Eight. Take the Obama 2012 states and remove Iowa, Ohio, Florida, Nevada, and the 2nd CD Congressional District of Maine. That leaves 272 electoral...
View ArticleSo what do the national polls say today?
here is a summary this evening from Jeff Gauvinx#POLLS 11/6 9PMâ ABC C+5â NO C+5â NBC: C+4â MC C+3â UPI C+3â RAND C+9â RE C+4â CBS C+3â FOX C+2â GOO C+3â SM...
View ArticleEyes Wide Open....What Your Vote Says About You
We all want great things to happen within our United States, but when you come out of the woodwork to let us know that you voted for the man with no qualifications, open fraud cases, bankruptcies,...
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For those who still don't get how stupid the Electoral College is...
Just a quick note regarding the whole Popular Vote / Electoral Vote brouhaha in light of Donald Trump ending up as President in spite of Hillary Clinton receiving over 2 million more votes...
View ArticleMichigan Recount Halted, Trump Wins Election
1) WNDU and Detroit Free Press are reporting that Judge Mark Godlsmith has rescinded his earlier order that the Michigan recount continue. Earlier the Michigan Elections Board voted to end the...
View ArticleSeven Democratic Faithless electors: Evidence Bernie helped poison the well
Seven “faithless electors” in Maine, Minnesota, Colorado, and Washington (4) tried to vote for candidates other than Clinton, who won both their state’s popular vote and the national popular vote....
View ArticleWhat if Donald Trump's "massive so-called voter fraud" claim, was in the...
Drumpf's continuous proclamations that there was massive voter fraud, allowing extra votes for Hillary Clinton, could backfire, if it were true, which it isn’t. What if his so-called massive voter...
View ArticlePopular Vote Presidents? 40 of 45!
Popular Vote winners will become President-Elect, by the law of the land, when just 105 more electoral college votes join the 165 already signed into State Law. This is a State’s Rights issue: There...
View ArticleSupermajority States--60% or better for House Candidates 2018
I was looking at the latest Wasserman House Results and decided to look at which states cast more than 60% of their votes for House candidates for one party or the other. Bar a major upheaval, these...
View ArticleElectoral College Battle Heats Up in Colorado
On March 15, Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed the National Popular Vote bill, joining a group of states that have pledged to award their electoral votes to whichever presidential candidate wins the...
View ArticleWHEN WILL WE LEARN?
In November 2016 a large part of this country was shocked to awaken to the news that Trump was elected POTUS.A new election season has started and if you listen to the pollsters it seems Trump is going...
View ArticleWhat If Congress Increases the US House to 500 Members to Give Large States...
en.wikipedia.org/…California has about 40 million people and Wyoming has 577,000. It takes nearly 70 Wyomings to equal one California, though both are represented by two Senators as the constitution...
View ArticleMichigan Primary Looms Large
Exit polls in primaries and caucuses so far reveal that voters’#1 concern is nominating the candidate with the best chance of winning in November. This indicates a nationwide awareness, a pervasive...
View ArticleNavajos, Apaches Fighting Through to Victory Over Trump, Despite Coronavirus
Navajo and Apache voters are determined to deliver Arizona’s 11 Electoral Votes to defeat Trump despite struggling with the worst coronavirus outbreak per capita in the nation -- and they are making...
View ArticleReform the senate. 199 Senators & 640 EVs. A policy proposal
The US senate is broken. Imagine a state like Wyoming with less than 600,000 residents having the same power as California with nearly 40 million citizens. Equal status for small states and large...
View ArticleDid the VP pick and conventions help, hurt, or make no change to Biden's lead?
15-SECOND TAKEAWAYBiden 319 (46 Leaners) | 95 Tossups | Trump 124 (18 Leaners)270 Threshold: NH or WI (60 Likely D)Hot Contests: TX, GA, IA, OH, NCChanges Since Sen. Kamala Harris Chosen as VP...
View ArticleA few not so random thoughts on the election
written by someone who not an expert in polling, has not been personally active in a political campaign since 2006, and has had far less time and energy to devote to political matters this election...
View ArticleProtect the Election Results: March, Write and/or Call
How Trump could try to steal the election if he loses in November.I saw a video on FB posted by the ACLU — below the fold there’s a link to the video and the text from its captions which pretty well...
View ArticleNevada or Pennsylvania
Need either NV or PA.-Georgia only has Fulton County showing less than 100% and not enough left there to make up the difference-North Carolina is unclear what is status, but nothing is happening and...
View ArticleCNN: Michigan Goes to Joe!
Per CNN, Joe Biden has won Michigan! The state that Hillary Clinton lost in 2016 is now projected to go to Joe. Here are the results: www.cnn.com/…. As of now, Biden has 253 electoral votes to The...
View ArticleTrump Loses Congressional Vote but Will Not Lose the Republican Party
Forty-eight hours after the AP projected Joe Biden as president-elect, Donald Trump established a Save America PAC to secure his takeover of the Republican Party.Two developments that will occur before...
View ArticleWe need to change the Electoral Count Act of 1873
The Electoral Count Act of 1887 allows the Congress to reject a state’s electors if both the House and Senate vote to reject them. This means that if a party controls both the House and Senate they can...
View ArticleModern seditionists are a laughable group indeed. Let the Republican civil...
Imagine if you will, being a US Senator, elected to serve the government as constitutionally formed. You swear an oath to uphold the constitution and protect the people. Now, imagine your next step is...
View ArticleCONTINUE THE COUNT! Count the electoral votes from the bunker if necessary.
This should have taken about an hour or so.The longer the counting of the electoral votes goes on, the more potential for violence there is. Finishing the count takes away incentive for further...
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Current Coup Strategy
It’s a fairly reasonable assumption that elements in the Republican Party are planning another coup and have not given up. One less crude perhaps than what happened on January 6th. Some of the tactics...
View ArticleIs the Department of Justice Going to Hold the Puppet Master Accountable?
Today marks the one-year anniversary of the January 6 attack on the Capitol Building, the seat of the US federal government. This attack was not done by revolutionaries who had a genuine cause to carry...
View ArticleWhy We Are Fighting For Election-Day Registration in Arizona
Our Voting Rights Initiative in Arizona includes many features, but few more important than Election Day registration.Arizonans have a right to go to the polls and vote. That was the way it worked in...
View ArticleNo, progressives shouldn't "move to safe blue states"--that'd be giving the...
Just following up on Christopher Reeves’ excellent diary from last week on the importance of resisting any foolish, short-sighted calls for Dems “to move to blue states” from battlegrounds and, in...
View ArticleArizona Among First States to Move to Protect Electoral Votes
As the Jan. 6 Committee exposes how close right-wing fanatics came in 2020 to actually stealing the electoral votes of swing states, Arizona is moving forward with one of the first important steps to...
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