Since its founding, the United States has used the Electoral College toelect the nation's president. A candidate needs 270 electoral votes to win the White House. Five presidents in the history of the nation won the presidency without winning the popular vote — most recently, Donald Trump in...
How does federalism and democracy shape the American experience? How is power distributed under federalism? How does the principle of federalism affect the U.S. government? How does the electoral college preserve federalism? How does federalism support the main ideas of the Preamble to the U.S....
How does federalism support democracy? How is the supremacy clause of the U.S. Constitution connected to federalism? Under federalism, which level of government has concurrent powers? How does the Constitution limit presidential power? How does cooperative federalism work in the United States?
The public and commentators often focus on who won the presidency, not the size of the margin in the Electoral College or even who won the popular vote. Indeed, sometimes a popular-vote loser is said to have a mandate. Former Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.)said thisof Trump’s ...
Eastman was the architect of a plan to have then-Vice President Mike Pence set aside Electoral College votes from seven states and deny President Joe Biden victory. Eastman outlined his six-step plan in a memo obtained by CNN and others. It included having states send a second slate of e...
To wit: 32% of Democrats currently support Sanders, and in the same survey, 30% think is the most electable (see the correlation of other candidates over time as well). As such, despite all the pundit-talk about the power of “electability,” I am not sure it really means what most...
But there is also much good news from around the world in 2024. Democracy is thriving! Consider: Voters in over 60 countrieswent to the pollslast year. The elections were peaceful and the results were accepted by all parties without violence and civil division. The largest democracy in the ...
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even a Republican president inciting an insurrection to overturn the results of a free and fair election – arguably a most-likely case – is insufficient to say in an anonymous phone survey that they no longer support the Party/Trump (let alone take costly action to protect democracy). This...
Rubio: "I am not and I will never support -- never have and never will support -- any effort to grant blanket legalization." The ad: "91 percent of Latinos support the DREAM Act, which allows undocumented youth to attend college." Rubio: "People in the United States who ...