The latest takedown of the Electoral College is here
Columnist Eric Black recommends a YouTube video of U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin destroying the Electoral College.
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Test your presidential election knowledge of the popular vs. electoral vote
Who was the only presidential candidate to win the national popular vote in three and exactly three consecutive presidential elections?
Refusal of some Republicans to commit to accepting election results is troubling
Columnist Eric Black laments a Washington Post report showing only seven of 19 Republican nominees in closely watched statewide races committed to accepting the outcome if they lost.
New York Times piece on democracy is spot on
Eric Black writes, “The experience of the Trump presidency and the number of ways he found to try to steal the office for four more years in 2020 make it vital that we candidly face the elements of the crazy, overly-complicated system of sort-of democracy under which we govern ourselves.”
Another Republican eloquently rejects Trump
Columnist Eric Black writes that Peter Wehner, who worked in the White House under three Republican presidents, has been eloquent and consistent in rejecting what Trump has done to his Grand Old Party.
President Biden’s approval rating is improving, but will he seek second term?
Columnist Eric Black writes, “After declining steadily, one tiny tenth-of-a-point at a time, unrelentingly for the first year and a half of his term, President Biden’s approval rating has rallied by five percentage points over the past month and a half.”
PBS ‘Frontline’ documentary examines former President Donald Trump’s lies
Columnist Eric Black writes that the film “is as honest and accurate and chilling as you can imagine. If possible, we should all save a copy and rerun it in future presidential election years…”
A liberal’s experiment in calling DeSantis a ‘fascist’ and what it says about labels
Republicans and conservatives have taken to labeling as “socialists” many liberal political figures who do not call themselves by that term. Here’s what happened when a liberal suggested Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is a fascist.
New poll shows public disapproval of U.S. Supreme Court at 30-year high
The change seems to have been driven substantially by the Dobbs ruling that overturned the Roe v. Wade decision on abortion.
Why a Harvard political scientist thinks ‘Stop the Steal’ is not about ballots
Harvard-based political scientist and sociologist Theda Skocpol tells The Atlantic’s Elaine Godfrey the movement is a metaphor for something else.
Cheney’s act of honorable sacrifice to expose Trump’s lies
Cheney, who is 10 times more conservative than Donald Trump and 100 times more honest, never flinched from her duty.
An anniversary for Social Security and a nod to its first beneficiary
Ida Mae Fuller received the very first Social Security benefit and ended up living until she was 100 years old.
Through time, polls ask Americans whether to tax rich to redistribute wealth
Americans have grown more open to the idea since the question was first asked in 1939.
On the 48th anniversary of Nixon’s resignation, the presidency and the law
Boston University historian Heather Cox Richardson reminds us Nixon “never did admit wrongdoing, and he was never held accountable.”
Why we (still) need to get rid of the Electoral College to decide presidential elections
The Electoral College system has almost nothing going for it and introduces many unnecessary flaws and distortions into our poor, dear old nation’s effort to choose a leader.
‘Trumpism’ actually grew out of Newt Gingrich’s ’94 ascendance, argues Dana Milbank’s new book
And neither will the sickness in the Republican Party disappear with the former president.
What Trump and enablers did to his Arizona electors was despicable
Personally, I doubt they would have faced treason charges. More likely some form of election fraud, which is nonetheless a felony.
And now, a choice serving from Bret Stephens
The New York Times columnist considers the 2022 Arizona U.S. Senate contest.
Klobuchar and Walz for president? New Washington Post list has them as possible candidates
Tim Walz was included, after nine likelier contenders each got their own paragraph, in a collective 10th ranking with Gov. Roy Cooper of North Carolina and U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan (who is currently running for Senate in Ohio).
Poll shows some shift in views of former President Trump since hearings on Jan. 6
I wouldn’t get carried away with this. But it’s encouraging that the group that best represents the presidential swing vote has moved steadily in favor of holding Trump accountable.
