

Could Trump Really Be President Again?
It’s not nearly as far-fetched as most of us would like to believe.
It’s not nearly as far-fetched as most of us would like to believe.
Assuming they had the votes, should Democrats carve out yet another exception?
They’re taking their eye off the ball.
A potentially more representative map that still underscores deep flaws in our system.
Senator Romney and the latest edition of the senatorial pro-filibuster op/ed.
America’s institutions are undemocratic but only some of them are a product of the Constitution.
Looking back on the last three decades of presidential elections. (Part 1: the popular vote).
All the major outlets are finally acknowledging the obvious.
We may be a little closer to ending the tyranny of the Electoral College.
He has the largest lead of any challenger since modern polling began in 1936.
It creates a veto gate that they are almost guaranteed to control when they need it.
The vagaries of our Presidential election mechanism gave us a surprising result in 2016. That’s unlikely this year.
A discussion of what #NeverTrump means, on Sanders v. Trump, and some about the philosophy of voting.
As doubts about the health of the economy start to mount, President Trump’s job approval is starting to suffer.
The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week that states cannot punish electors who fail to follow the will of the majority of voters n their state or state laws purporting to direct how they should vote.
A new poll shows Donald Trump losing to top Democrats in head-to-head races.
No, abolishing the EC would not turn farmers into serfs.
A new poll finds that a small majority of Americans support abolishing the Electoral College, but that’s not nearly enough to make any change in how we elect Presidents possible.
Massachusetts Democrat Seth Moulton makes an argument familiar to OTB readers.
The emergence of a silly talking point.
The 2018 midterms were mostly about Donald Trump. The results were idiosyncratic.
Minority rule and self-reinforcing cleavages are not a a healthy combination.
New polling seems to show a significant shift toward Democrats in the upcoming midterm elections.
Forget the “republic v. a democracy” abstraction. The numbers show some serious flaws in translating popular will into government.
Eleven states plus DC, who have 172 of the 270 electoral votes needed to elect a President, are now part of the compact.
The campaign-agnostic political science models predicted a toss-up in 2016 and again in 2020.