Commentary
In the 2016 U.S. election, Hillary Clinton won the popular vote handily, but—against all poll and virtually all pundit predictions—she lost the election because Donald Trump amassed a winning number of Electoral College votes.
Canada
Opinion
Those Calling for Abolition of Electoral College Want Neither a Republic Nor a Democracy
Riverfront promenade at Brooklyn Bridge Park in New York City on May 17, 2020. If the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact—a proposed agreement among a group of U.S. states to award all their electoral votes to whichever presidential candidate wins the overall popular vote—were to achieve its goal, the effect would be election outcomes controlled by the country’s 10 largest metropolitan areas. Justin Heiman/Getty Images
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Barbara Kay
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Barbara Kay is a columnist and author. Her latest writing project is co-authorship with Linda Blade of the book “Unsporting: How Trans Activism and Science Denial are Destroying Sport.”
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