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For centuries, our elections have suffered from a flawed, plurality voting system. Our system produces outcomes in which the winning candidate often does not represent the policy preferences of the majority of voters. In the presidential election of 1844, when slave-owner James Polk defeated widely-respected abolitionist Henry Clay...
In the modern era, the 2000 election was the most notable example of a case in which voters’ preferences were not properly represented. Through our plurality voting system, a right-of-center candidate took office despite the fact that a clear majority of the public voted for liberal...
The system is by no means mathematically perfect, and, like any other system, it can still be manipulated. The system does, however, provide solutions to a variety of problems with our current electoral system. It could prevent low turnout primaries from determining the general election slate of candidates while also...
Those comments alone may have doomed her later appointment. It was clear from the start that even with the Democrats' 60-vote Senate supermajority, which evaporated with Republican Scott Brown's election in January, the confirmation would not be easy. And it wasn't, despite support from hundreds of law...
An election is the battle for the soul of a country, and party spin doctors are busily concocting competing visions of Britain to lure voters to the polls on May 6. The stakes are high. The Conservatives' lead in opinion polls is too narrow to guarantee an outright victory, and...