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The Runner-Up Presidency : The Elections That Defied America's Popular Will (and How Our Democracy Remains in Danger).

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Globe Pequot Press, The, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (225 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781493022588
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Runner-Up PresidencyDDC classification:
  • 324.973
LOC classification:
  • JK524
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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