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the elections that defied America's popular will (and how our democracy remains in danger)

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An edition of The runner-up presidency (2016)

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the elections that defied America's popular will (and how our democracy remains in danger)

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English
Pages
215

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Subjects
Presidents, History, Political campaigns, Election, Presidential candidates, Presidents, united states, election
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United States

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The runner-up presidency: the elections that defied America's popular will (and how our democracy remains in danger)
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Electoral votes: a risky game of dice
What were the founders thinking? The electoral system's oddities, origins, and benefits
Florida, Bush v. Gore, and the 2000 election
The loser wins: Rutherford B. Hayes (1876)
The loser wins again: Benjamin Harrison (1888)
The house decides: Jefferson v. Burr (1800)
The house decides again: John Quincy Adams v. Andrew Jackson (1824)
1968: a close call with George Wallace
Direct elections and other flawed proposals to fix our system
How Barack Obama nearly became a runner-up president: the search for a more perfect electoral system
Two small repairs: winner-takes-most (not all) and a better way to deal with deadlocks
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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
324.973
Library of Congress
JK524 .W47 2016, JK524

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Pagination
viii, 215 pages
Number of pages
215

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OL27220822M
ISBN 10
1493022571
ISBN 13
9781493022571
LCCN
2015046069
OCLC/WorldCat
941577297

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