Demographic Reality

By: davenj1 (Diary)  |  December 24th at 11:20 AM  | 

With the most recent election barely behind us, a little recognized piece of news data was released this week by the United States Census Bureau. Despite the fact that a national census is constitutionally mandated every ten years for apportionment purposes, the Census Bureau does not go into hibernation for nine years only to emerge when a year ends in a zero. Most recently, they | Read More »

Electoral Reform- Part 8: The Electoral College

By: davenj1 (Diary)  |  November 18th at 10:47 PM  | 

Perhaps one of the absolute worst proposals to come out of this talk of reform is to get rid of the electoral college and decide the President based on the popular vote. These are the same people who also whine about the two party system and the restrictions placed on third party ballot access. So, let’s assume we get rid of the electoral college and | Read More »

Messing With the Electoral College

By: davenj1 (Diary)  |  April 11th at 01:30 PM  | 

There is a movement in the country to surreptitiously elect the President by popular vote under the guise of saving the Electoral College. Specifically, I am referring to the interstate compact for the popular vote of the President. According to the dynamics, once the requisite number of states sign onto the agreement by statute and their electoral votes equal 270 (the amount needed to win | Read More »