Even though I’m no Sherlock Holmes I thought I’d have an easier time figuring out their names. My amateur sleuthing — aided by Google — led nowhere. It took three days of persistent efforts including several direct inquiries to the Secretary of State’s Office to obtain the identities of the slates of each party’s current […]
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‘We don’t speculate’: How AP counts votes and calls races
As it has for more than 170 years, The Associated Press will count the vote and report the results of presidential, congressional and state elections on Nov. 3 and beyond
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Who formally declares the winner of the US presidential election?
Unlike many other countries, where the president or prime minister is chosen by direct popular vote, in the United States, a presidential candidate may win the popular vote and still not be elected to the nation’s highest office. The U.S. also differs from most other democracies in that it has no independent electoral commission to […]
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‘Hey, Hey, Donald J., how many did you infect today?’
President Donald Trump seems to be using the Vietnam War playbook in dealing the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The Electoral College benefits whiter states
With a Supreme Court ruling rejecting one of the founders’ two reasons for creating the Electoral College, only one reason remains: racism.
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Liberals should not push for an end to the electoral college
Like big states, mobs get their energy by pushing themselves on much smaller opponents.
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Originalism threatens to turn the clock back on race
The philosophy that might undo some of the Supreme Court’s more popular decisions.
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Three lessons from the Barrett confirmation hearings
The spectacle itself was extraordinarily uninformative, but there are key takeaways nonetheless.
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Barrett’s ‘originalism’ can be pure politics
It’s a myth, even an affront, to say that in the hardest cases, judges can always “apply the law as written.”
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Maine deserves a serious debate on climate change in the U.S. Senate race
With much of America’s West Coast burning and Southeast Coast flooding, it’s amazing that the subject of climate change has barely been mentioned in the Susan Collins-Sarah Gideon Senatorial slugfest. Instead, Mainers have been treated to a nightly barrage of dueling television ads in which Collins and Gideon have attacked one another for every real […]