New Poll Finds Most Americans Back Adopting Popular Vote to Select President

A new poll demonstrates strong support for amending the U.S. Constitution to abolish the Electoral College and replace it with a popular vote model. Under the Electoral College — the archaic system of selecting the president of the United States — states are given electoral votes based on how many members of Congress they have. Candidates obtain these votes by winning statewide races, or…
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Trump’s Judicial Nominees Refuse to Say He Can’t Run for a Third Term

Political observers are expressing alarm after several of President Donald Trump’s lifetime judicial nominees refused to say whether he is eligible to run for a third term. During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday, Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) asked Trump judicial nominee John Marck to describe the 22nd Amendment of the US Constitution, which states that “no person shall be…
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