The Runner-Up Presidency
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The Runner-Up Presidency

The Elections That Defied America's Popular Will (and How Our Democracy Remains in Danger)

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The Runner-Up Presidency

The Elections That Defied America's Popular Will (and How Our Democracy Remains in Danger)

About this book

An entertaining and important account of presidential elections in which the winner of the popular vote lost or came all too close to losing, focusing on the Constitutional Convention in 1787, the disputed elections of 1876 and 2000, the deadlocks of 1800 and 1824 (when the elections were thrown to the House of Representatives) and the close call during the tumultuous year of 1968. Author and historian Mark Weston explains how electoral votes emerged as a compromise between the free states and slave states at the Constitutional Convention, how they were inspired by an unusual method of counting votes in ancient Rome, and how this system played out in six presidential elections that shake our faith in American democracy. The Runner-Up Presidency combines an in-depth political and numerical analysis of America’s electoral system with rich narratives of our six strangest elections.
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Information

Publisher
Lyons Press
Year
2016
eBook ISBN
9781493022588
Topic
History
Subtopic
North American History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. INTRODUCTION: Electoral Votes: A Risky Game of Dice
  2. CHAPTER 1: What Were the Founders Thinking? The Electoral System’s Oddities, Origins, and Benefits
  3. CHAPTER 2: Florida, Bush v. Gore, and the 2000 Election
  4. CHAPTER 3: The Loser Wins: Rutherford B. Hayes (1876)
  5. CHAPTER 4: The Loser Wins Again: Benjamin Harrison (1888)
  6. CHAPTER 5: The House Decides: Jefferson vs. Burr (1800)
  7. CHAPTER 6: The House Decides Again: John Quincy Adams vs. Andrew Jackson (1824)
  8. CHAPTER 7: 1968: A Close Call with George Wallace
  9. CHAPTER 8: Direct Elections and Other Flawed Proposals to Fix Our System
  10. CHAPTER 9: How Barack Obama Nearly Became a Runner-Up President: The Search for a More Perfect Electoral System
  11. CHAPTER 10: Two Small Repairs: Winner-Takes-Most (Not All) and a Better Way to Deal with Deadlocks
  12. APPENDIX A: Three Possible Constitutional Amendments
  13. APPENDIX B: Winner-Takes-Most’s Roughly Equal Sacrifices from State to State
  14. APPENDIX C: Past Elections under the Winner-Takes-Most Reform
  15. Acknowledgments
  16. Selected Bibliography
  17. About the Author