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...live electors was recommended by a 1992 panel commissioned by the Center for the Study of the Presidency. The panel also argued for an electoral-vote presidential run-off if no candidate gains an electoral majority. (In that event, under today's system, the House picks the President. Each state's delegation gets one vote, and a candidate needs a majority of the states to be elected...
...communicate with both liberals and moderates and then quell their spats. But the balancing act may get tougher: of the 10 seats that Democrats took from Republicans, most will be held by conservatives like Mike Ross of Arkansas and right-of-center moderates like Rick Larsen of Washington State. What's more, with a large number of aging Democratic Congressmen nearing retirement, Gephardt will have to take the lead in recruiting new candidates to replace them. In other words, a guy who has so far been thwarted from two ambitions--the presidency and the speakership--will return to worrying mostly...
Although today electors dwell in deserved obscurity, they still have to gather, usually in their state's capital, a month or so after Election Day and actually cast votes. They have carried out that task with admirably robotic precision: only nine have ever failed to vote as they pledged. But they could make mischief in circumstances such as the ones we face today, in which the winner of the popular vote may narrowly lose the electoral vote...
...need a Constitutional amendment to avoid another mess like Tuesday's, but it's unfair to blame the architects of the U.S. Constitution. They simply put the framework of an Electoral College into being, specifying that each state would choose an elector for each of its U.S. Senators and members of Congress. The rest was left to Congress and the states, and when the national party systems took shape in the 1820s, the states began to have voters choose party slates of electors when they voted for President. Most electoral-vote results became winner-take-all outcomes, which they remain...
Therein lies the problem, that presidential elections wound up with two measurements: one, with no legal standing, was the national total of popular votes; the second involved the voters' choice of electors from each state. Most of the time, the popular-vote winner also got a majority of the Electoral College...