By Barbara Baum Levine It’s 2016 and the Party is coping With 17 candidates, each one hoping To be the next Republican President And undo the distasteful precedent Of the man from Kenya. White men from the Senate, A political… Read More ›
2016 presidential election
Constitutional Anachronism Frustrates Popular Voting
In the first presidential election, in 1788–89, the Virginian, George Washington, received all 69 electoral votes and 43,782 popular votes from white male property owners over the age of 21. The census of 1790 reported that the total population of… Read More ›
HOW A MINORITY AND A PROPAGANDA BLITZ ELECTED A PRESIDENT
The 2016 presidential election witnessed 137 million votes cast with 66 million and 63 million cast respectively for the Democratic and Republican candidates. Under our constitutional structure reflected in the Electoral College system, the popular votes translated into 302 electoral… Read More ›