Volume 52, Number 5 · March 24, 2005
The Electoral College Flunks
By Alexander Keyssar
Why the Electoral College Is Bad for America
by George C. Edwards III
Yale University Press, 198 pp., $26.00
On November 2, the oddities of our presidential electoral system produced another near miss. Although George W. Bush received 3.5 million more votes than did John Kerry, a shift of fewer than 60,000 votes in Ohio would have given Kerry enough votes in the electoral college to make him president. Had that occurred, Bush would have had a unique place in our political history, as the only man to become president in a popular election that he lost and then to lose the presidency in an election in which he received more votes than his opponent.
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