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Together, they are collectively known as the Electoral College, an institution that is protected by a dizzying array of myths and misunderstandings. This book argues incisively that the Electoral College neither lives up to the Founding Fathers expectations nor the modern arguments offered in its defense.
Drawing on a thorough analysis that includes every single presidential election from 1788 to 2020, Tomas McIntee finds that the Electoral College does not have a systematic bias in favor of small states, rural voters, or either of the two major political parties. Instead, it is chaotic; it favors large battleground states, rewards regionally divisive candidates, and is more susceptible to everything from fraud to bad weather.
Its time to graduate from the Electoral College.
Advance praise for Graduating from the Electoral College:
McIntee gives a comprehensive critique of the Electoral College that includes a consideration of its mathematical failings An analytically incisive account of the Electoral Colleges foibles.
- Kirkus Reviews
In addition to taking readers on a journey of the Electoral Colleges role in every election through 2020, McIntees classification of pivotal, critical, and crucial states will be quite useful to scholars, pundits, and even casual observers of the Electoral College. This is an accessible book that will be especially attractive to critics of the Electoral College.
- Robert Alexander
Author of Representation and the Electoral College
To say that Graduating from the Electoral College is key to understanding the American democratic process is an understatement. This is the book that should be assigned reading from high school upwards, required background reading for any educated voter who wants to enter the modern fray of controversial discussions with more than innuendo and vague notions of the Colleges history, intentions, and relevance to the power struggles that affect this nation.
-D. Donovan
Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Reviews
Once their utility passed, three-corner hats, outdoor privies, and horse-drawn carriages were dismissed. It is long past time to drop another eighteenth century relic; one that threatens our democracy: the US Electoral College. This is where, not yours, but the votes of 538 essentially anonymous people elect the President of the US! For political reasons, reform is difficultuntil enough people speak out. An excellent place to learn about its history and dangers is this book by McIntee.
-Donald G. Saari
Author of Chaotic Elections! A Mathematician Looks at Voting
Distinguished Research Professor, University of California, Irvine
This book is a masterpiece, a real page-turner for anyone with an interest, either professional or recreational, in the bizarre system the most powerful country in the world uses to elect the most powerful person in the world. While the author precedes and follows his analysis making no mistake about his opinion of the Electoral College, his analysis remains fair and unbiased, and incredibly thorough. The founders can be forgiven for the flaws in the Electoral College, as they were working without history or context. Later generations might not be so easy on us, though, for allowing partisan politics and misguided perceptions to keep us from moving on from it.
-Rick Klima
Co-author of The Mathematics of Voting and Elections: A Hands-On Approach
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Graduating
from the
Electoral College
Tomas J. McIntee
Copyright 2023 Tomas J. McIntee
All rights reserved.
McIntee, Tomas J.
Graduating from the Electoral College / Tomas J. McIntee
Includes bibliographic references and index.
Library of Congress Control Number: 2022922853
ISBN 978-1-959266-00-6 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-959266-01-3 (paperback)
ISBN 978-1-959266-02-0 (electronic)
ISBN 978-1-959266-03-7 (alt. ed. hc.)
ISBN 978-1-959266-04-4 (alt. ed. pb.)
Published by Hurricane Lamp Press
PO Box 3715
Chapel Hill
North Carolina
27515
Cover design by Alexis Waters
Authored in RMarkdown
For the people of the United States of America
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T he purpose of this book is to more clearly illuminate the flaws in the Electoral College system. It is my hope that it will help clarify and solidify the public case against the Electoral College, and to build credibility for that case. Many of the flaws discussed in this book are already known by experts, but not widely understood. This book also offers rebuttals to many of the common arguments offered in favor of the Electoral College and seeks to debunk some of the myths about the Electoral College that have helped to preserve it.
What makes this book distinct from many others on the subject is that it comes from a mathematical perspective, informed by voting theory and systematic quantitative analysis of the historical record. It is intended to complement other books on the Electoral College coming from the perspectives of political science, history, and law - books like Why the Electoral College Is Bad for America (2019 ) by George Edwards, Representation and the Electoral College (2019 ) by Robert Alexander, and Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? (2020 ) by Alexander Keyssar. For a fuller understanding of a topic, it helps to study it from many different perspectives.
While this book was written by a mathematician with a mathematical perspective, the reader does not need to have a background in advanced mathematics to follow its arguments. There are some aspects of the Electoral College that are mathematically complex to analyze, but I believe grasping the conclusions of that analysis does not present a mathematical challenge. It is also my hope that my different arguments with their similar conclusions might help bring around some of the skeptics who have not been convinced by the political scientists, historians, and lawyers who have written about the problems with the Electoral College.
This book starts with a brief overview of how the American presidential election system works, where it came from, and a little bit about what the system is not . An extensive mythology has grown up around the Electoral College, and not all of it is factual. This brief overview takes two chapters. The main body of the book is organized in chronological order, systematically examining the elections from 1788 to 2020. From Chapter 3 to Chapter , the various quirks of the Electoral College system are explored chronologically, with a brief discussion of every election. This builds up - slowly - to a systematic analysis of all elections.
About a third of the way through this pool of elections, we reach the year 1860, when something very important happened: Abraham Lincoln is elected.
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