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  title info:
    title: Let the people pick the president
    sub title: the case for abolishing the Electoral College
  name:
    name part: Wegman, Jesse
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 296 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: A radical spirit of change has overtaken American politics, making once-unthinkable reforms, like abolishing the Electoral College, seem possible. Two of the last five elections were won by candidates who lost the popular vote, calling the integrity of the entire electoral system into question. Political passions are already high, and they will reach a boiling point as we enter the 2020 race. The message from the American people is clear. We need major reform, and we need it now. In Let the People Pick the President, New York Times editorial board member Jesse Wegman makes a powerful case for abolishing the antiquated and antidemocratic Electoral College, and choosing presidents based on a national popular vote. He uncovers the Electoral College's controversial origins, profiles the many attempts to reform it over the years and explains why it is now essential for us to remove this obsolete system and finally make every citizen's vote matter. Wegman addresses objections from both sides of the aisle and presents an airtight argument that moving toward a national popular vote would reduce voter apathy and political polarization, increase voter turnout and restore belief in our democratic system. Abolishing the Electoral College is the keystone reform that must be accomplished to improve our politics. Wegman shows that this once-lofty goal can be achieved, and charts a path to accomplishing it.
  table of contents: Introduction : a more perfect union -- Did the Founders fear democracy? -- The fraught origins of the Electoral College -- Did the Electoral College ever really work? -- The second founding -- One person, one vote -- Setting the record straight, part one : common Electoral College myths -- The national popular vote interstate compact -- Setting the record straight, part two : common popular vote myths -- Imagining a national popular vote.
  note: Jesse Wegman.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Presidents
    geographic: United States
    topic: Election
  subject:
    topic: Electoral college
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Voting
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Campaigns & Elections
  classification: JK528 .W39 2020
  classification: 324.60973
  identifier: 9781250221971
  identifier: 1250221978
  identifier: 9781250221988
  identifier: 2019043276
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 191015
    record change date: 20200713120002.0
    record identifier: in00004168887