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Terror at Home: We Are Smarter Than We Think
Fear mongering media outlets have convinced many that we are losing the war on terror at home. The truth is, however, that we are doing quite well.According to the October Terror Threat Snap ...
17 Nov, 2016
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To Those Still Upset About the Popular Vote: It's Time to Let it Go
I've written many times on the Electoral College. While there are problems we should address, I'm not for the wholesale elimination of the concept.I'll admit, I'm a center-left, cross-ballot voter. Th ...
13 Nov, 2016
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The 2016 Election's Biggest Winner: Gary Johnson and The Libertarian Party?
You may be asking how the Libertarian Party could have won the 2016 election with no seats in Congress and with its presidential candidate finishing in a very, very distant third place behind the Demo ...
12 Nov, 2016
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Why Isn't Election Day a National Holiday Already?
Everyone has heard the grade school story of why we have elections on the first Tuesday in November. It was after harvest time, market days were on Wednesday, and people didn't want to have to travel ...
08 Nov, 2016
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5 min read
The Majority Has Spoken (Again and Again): It’s Time To End The Electoral College
Raise your hand if you think that the president of the United States should be elected by the popular vote. Ah, it looks like most of you do. Hands down and know that you’re not alone.In fact, poll af ...
07 Nov, 2016
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6 min read
Solving Problems with Ranked Choice Voting: Replacing Runoffs
As the general election nears, FairVote will discuss problems with our election system and electoral solutions offered by ranked choice voting.In a previous blog post, we discussed the problems that c ...
07 Nov, 2016
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How a Presidential Candidate Can Contest the Results of the Election
Donald Trump said during Wednesday night’s debate that he couldn’t guarantee that he will accept the results of the November 8 election, but would have to “look at it at the time.” Trump has repeatedl ...
21 Oct, 2016
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Electoral College: The 'Goldilocks' Solution to the Rural / Urban Divide
It seems that in every political discussion that involves more than a dozen people, two things are sure to happen: someone is called a 'Hitler' and someone blames our political woes on the Electoral C ...
20 Oct, 2016
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Un Llamado a California: Voten por el Candidato, No Por el Partido
Como republicano, anterior representante del 25avo Distrito Congresional de California (1993-2015), y Presidente del Comité de las Fuerzas Armadas del Congreso, fui testigo de primera mano de la ética ...
19 Oct, 2016
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Tired of Political Status Quo, Two-Party Duopoly Fuels Voter Apathy
The 2016 Presidential election has been dubbed by many as a choice between “the lesser of two evils” and many voters are so disenchanted with the entire process that they are threatening to sit out th ...
27 Sep, 2016
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