electoral college

[Michael Curtis]

Perhaps this information has been on the list and I missed it in the
many postings.

If the electoral college were abolished, but the electoral vote retained
going in proportion to the popular vote in the state, would our 20th
century presidential elections have had a different outcome?
Michael Curtis
"Volokh, Eugene" wrote:

>
>
>         It seems to me that Ward has a very good point.  I doubt that
> people on this list are likely to persuade or enlighten each other
> much with regard to which side is most misbehaving; such a discussion
> is much more likely to shed heat than light.  On the other hand, more
> technical legal discussions, or for that matter more general
> discussions about the lessons we might learn for our electoral system,
> seem much more likely to be valuable to fellow list members.
>
>         Eugene
>
>
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> Ward Farnsworth writes:
>
>      But it also suggests that discussions of which side is behaving
>      worse or
>      overreacting most in this campaign, or whether Jim Baker or Bill
>      Daley (or
>      their respective employers or followers) are more guilty of
>      hypocrisy or
>      paranoia, are not likely to be all that productive; those are
>      delicate
>      questions of perception especially prone to distortion by
>      underlying
>      political preferences and on which (most critically) minds seem
>      unlikely to
>      be changed by discussion in this format.  The discussions more
>      likely to be
>      productive on this list -- and that have, I think, been very
>      useful -- are
>      the ones that stick pretty closely to the details and legal merit
>      of the
>      moves and arguments being made by the various sides. My
>      preference, for what
>      it's worth, would be to see more of those (though this post does
>      not fall
>      into that category!).
>
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