Is Posner wrong about the value of letting swing state voters determine who will be President?

Jaltcoh thinks so , and I push back in the comments.

Richard Posner gives 5 reasons to keep the Electoral College.

In case you want to contemplate the unachievable goal of getting rid of it or you just want to learn to love what you can't avoid . Afte...

"Officials in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut have asked power companies to concentrate on bringing electricity back to polling places first..."

"... but they aren't betting on that." ‘‘Some of the voting machines do have battery backup,’’ New York State Board of Electio...

Swing state tracking poll: Romney 51%, Obama 45%

Romney's up 6 in today's Rasmussen swing-state poll . The last time anyone was up 6 in this poll, it was October 4 and Obama. That m...

"Wisconsin: Obama 49%, Romney 49%"

New Rasmussen poll. If Romney wins Wisconsin and New Hampshire, he'll win the Electoral College even without Ohio. Right?

"Wisconsin May Be the New Ohio."

Says Scott Rasmussen. ADDED: Speaking of Rasmussen, the Rasmussen tracking poll today is the same as yesterday — Romney 50%, Obama 47% — wh...

The distinct possibility of a 269 to 269 tie in the Electoral College.

Yesterday, I clicked my best guesses on the "Create Your Own" Electoral College map , and it came up 269 to 269! (In case you'...

Real Clear Politics Electoral College map has Romney ahead 206 to 201.

With 131 toss-up states. I don't remember seeing Romney on top in Electoral College votes before.

"The white margin to watch: 61-39. That’s the rough break-even point."

"Obama likely needs more than 39 percent of whites to assure re-election. Romney likely needs at least 61 percent of whites to assure O...

"The Romney Campaign's 'Route to 270' Doesn't Get to 270."

The Atlantic's Molly Ball asserts. So I did the math: If Romney flips those six states [Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nevada, Ohio, ...

The interplay between the Wisconsin recall and the November elections.

Business Insider has some analysis of a subject that deserves a lot of attention: "It’s possible the recall elections will rally Wiscon...

Sending his text message at 3 a.m. — the time Hillary made emblematic — Obama picks Biden.

Here 's the NYT report. I didn't stay up all night waiting to see the long-withheld news. Did you? I woke up naturally, and Obama...

Hillary Clinton's best argument to the superdelegates.

Look at these Electoral College maps.

Bayh's test: Which candidate won the states with the most electoral votes?

I think it's a good idea for Obama and Clinton proponents to propose different measures for the purposes of argument to the superdelegat...

Should bloggers do these conference calls with candidates?

I'm in the middle of writing a very important blog post, which is to say, a blog post that I'm inspired to write, and we're comi...

"A 'bill of particulars' against the Constitution."

Lawprof Sanford Levinson cites seven problems with the U.S. Constitution as a model for the rest of the world. 1. [The equal representation...

"Will a Democratic victory in today's election suddenly restore the integrity of America's political system...?"

Lawprof John O. McGinnis looks at two books that say American democracy is broken and thinks what he's seeing are two authors who don...

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Home of the 6 millionth visitor to this blog. You arrived on the Electoral College post from an unknown URL. Whoever you are, thanks for cli...

"When people complain that it’s an end run, I just tell them, 'Hey, an end run is a legal play in football.'"

So says John R. Koza , a computer scientist who thinks he's devised way to bypass the Electoral College by statutes. But law isn't f...

The National Popular Vote proposal.

Working around the Electoral College -- which is impervious to constitutional amendment -- through state-by-state legislation. I think it...