The runner-up presidency
Subtitle: the elections that defied America's popular will (and how our democracy remains in danger)
By: Mark Weston
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9781493022571
Subjects: Presidents; History; Political campaigns; Election; Presidential candidates
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Electoral votes: a risky game of dice; title: What were the founders thinking? The electoral system's oddities, origins, and benefits; title: Florida, Bush v. Gore, and the 2000 election; title: The loser wins: Rutherford B. Hayes (1876); title: The loser wins again: Benjamin Harrison (1888); title: The house decides: Jefferson v. Burr (1800); title: The house decides again: John Quincy Adams v. Andrew Jackson (1824); title: 1968: a close call with George Wallace; title: Direct elections and other flawed proposals to fix our system; title: How Barack Obama nearly became a runner-up president: the search for a more perfect electoral system; title: Two small repairs: winner-takes-most (not all) and a better way to deal with deadlocks; title: Appendix A: Three possible constitutional amendments; title: Appendix B: Winner-takes-most's roughly equal sacrifices from state to state; title: Appendix C: Past elections under the winner-takes-most reform.