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Salon (original article from Alternet): ALEC’s scary plan for electing your senators The Nation: ALEC Is Talking About Changing the Way Senators Are Elected and Taking Away Your Vote While I can't see a repeal of the 17th Amendment getting ratified, I didn't think Trump could get elected...

http://flipthe37.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-nuclear-option.html ^^^^^ List of GOP Electors The Electoral College meets on December 19th to vote for President. They can vote for any candidate they like. They can still choose a different person for President, other than Donald Trump. I urge...

I was thinking about the movement for national popular vote election of the president. I can't say I oppose it, because changing the voting mechanism for one office doesn't matter one way or the other. Frankly, the two systems will produce identical results most time. When it doesn't, its a very...

Why not the same opportunities for all US parties? Or wouldn't that be a matter of the supreme court to decide? :confused: In that light I might suspect that the selection process of the SCOTUS justices may well be a source of third party discrimination, no?

I understand that at its basic level, the United States' electoral college is designed out of the concern that large states would otherwise control elections. How? In the same vein, it was designed to give all states a voice in the selection of a nation's leader. Again, how? How does a small...

It's obvious that, in America at this point, the rich and the corporations and their finances are what really matter to American politicians: http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2011/10/05/141090844/millionaire-surtax-called-desperate-by-conservatives-sensible-by-liberals Republicans don't...

The media and the Mac supporters have all been exaggerating John McCain's popularity in the recent primaries. If I was to ask you how many more votes did McCain get than Romney, I bet you would say twice as many. But, that wouldn't even be close. Here are vote totals so far... McCain....4.7...

As a Brit, I'm a little confused by the whole concept of the Primaries. They seem so very superfluous... Why don't the parties just conduct a mail ballot of party members to pick the preferred candidate? Why is all this money and time and effort spent on traipsing round the country? In essence...