TY - BOOK AU - Weston,Mark TI - The Runner-Up Presidency: The Elections That Defied America's Popular Will (and How Our Democracy Remains in Danger) SN - 9781493022588 AV - JK524 U1 - 324.973 PY - 2016/// CY - Blue Ridge Summit PB - Globe Pequot Press, The KW - Presidents - United States - Election - History KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- _GoBack -- Introduction Electoral Votes: A Risky Game of Dice -- Chapter 1 What Were the Founders Thinking? -- Chapter 2 Florida, Bush v. Gore, and the 2000 Election -- Chapter 3 The Loser Wins -- Chapter 4 The Loser Wins Again -- Chapter 5 The House Decides -- Chapter 6 The House Decides Again -- Chapter 7 1968 -- Chapter 8 Direct Elections and Other Flawed Proposals to Fix Our System -- Chapter 9 How Barack Obama Nearly Became a Runner-Up President -- Chapter 10 Two Small Repairs -- Appendix A Three Possible Constitutional Amendments -- Appendix B Winner-Takes-Most's Roughly Equal Sacrifices from State to State -- Appendix C Past Elections under the Winner-Takes-Most Reform -- Acknowledgments -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4187229 ER -