Retiring Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) filed legislation Tuesday to abolish the Electoral College in light of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton winning the popular vote but still losing the election.Source: California Sen. Barbara Boxer files long shot bill to scrap the Electoral College system...
But a closer look at the report reveals that it's not entirely clear how to estimate the total number of uncounted ballots. Most notably, several counties have not updated their official count since the middle of last week.Source: Election officials across California still face as many as 4 million uncounted ballots...
At the Philadelphia Convention, the creation of the Electoral College mechanism was a last minute solution to the knotty problem of how to select a president. Selection by Congress, as some proposed, was seen as likely to make the president too dependent on Congress.Source: Richard Briffault: The “faithless” elector...
Although full spending reports haven’t been submitted, assuming both candidates spent all that they raised, as at Oct 28 this year, Clinton’s war chest totalled an astronomical US$687 million (RM3 billion), more than double Trump’s US$307 million.Source: Daily Media Links: Trump team talks of setting up political arm, Out-of-state cash in hot races does little to help Dems, and more…...
The news, as always, came via Twitter. Mitt Romney, the face — and voice — of the resistance to Donald Trump in the Republican primary and the general election will huddle with the president-elect over the weekend to talk about possibly serving as the nation's top diplomat.Source: Donald Trump’s flirtation with Mitt Romney is big-league smart...
Seeing the federal government slip into Republican hands is terrifying campaign finance experts, who are bracing for a wave of deregulation that could give millionaires and billionaires powerful new ways to influence American politics.Source: Republicans plan to "drain the swamp" by gutting campaign finance laws...
[Commentary] I’ve been thinking about what Trump’s unlikely rise and even more unlikely victory (and the way he got there) tells us about the future of TV. The establishment got beat up pretty bad (again) on multiple levels, and all of us who work in media need to start paying closer attention.Source: The Decline and Fall of Establishment Media...
Brett J. Talley is a lawyer, author, one-time writer for Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign and former speechwriter for Sen. Rob Portman. He is deputy solicitor general at the office of Alabama's attorney general. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his.Source: Who Donald Trump should appoint to the Supreme Court...
A super PAC run by close allies to President-elect Donald Trump is under FEC scrutiny for discrepancies in a filing it made during the presidential campaign, drawing renewed attention to a watchdog group's complaint alleging it funneled improper payments to Steve Bannon, Trump's campaign CEO andSource: Watchdog Group Alleges Illegal Super PAC Payments To Steve Bannon...
Good-government types were already crying foul over Donald Trump's intention to put his children in charge of his business during his presidency. And now that those same children are on Trump's transition team, these groups are even more concerned about conflicts of interest.Source: Giuliani explains why Trump can’t do a real blind trust: It ‘would basically put his children out of...
