The key to Harris’ chances lies not with voters who are truly undecided between two candidates, but those undecided between casting a Democratic ballot and staying home. www.msnbc.com/opinio...

Opinion | The biggest myth about ‘undecided’ voters

There are far fewer genuinely persuadable voters in America than there are survey respondents who say they are “undecided.”

Don't make me tap the sign. www.weekendreading.n...

Chart #2 is a screamer

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--Five of the six Republicans on the Supreme Court were confirmed by senators representing less than half of the US population. --Republicans have held the Senate majority for five of the last twelve Congresses despite representing a majority of the US population only once in that span.

Barack Obama and Kamala Harris have both talked with patriotic pride about how theirs is a “story that could only be written in America.” But, thanks to the Electoral College, so too is Donald Trump’s a story that could only be written in America. For more, read: www.weekendreading.n...

The Electoral College: Legal but not Legitimate

Resisting Learned Helplessness

What’s more, Trump has turned the original justification for the Electoral College on its head. Instead of checking popular passions which might elect an antidemocratic demagogue, it has done the opposite – installing an antidemocratic demagogue the people rejected.

--Five of the six Republicans on the Supreme Court were confirmed by senators representing less than half of the US population. --Republicans have held the Senate majority for five of the last twelve Congresses despite representing a majority of the US population only once in that span.

“Anti-democratic” is putting it mildly to describe many results of how our Constitution is written. Consider: --In two of the last six presidential elections (one third!) the results of the Electoral College overturned the popular vote.

For the last 20 years or more, the American people routinely insist that the system is not serving them and that they have no confidence in it in general—and the Electoral College in particular.

Remember that all the progress we’ve made on expanding American democracy—women’s suffrage, the Civil Rights Act, and more—has been because of people who recognized and fought against legal, but democratically illegitimate, structures.

One reaction to my last post, “Kamala Harris Will Win the Popular Vote,” has been something like, “Duh, but what matters is the Electoral College.” I’d ask you to consider what it means that we collectively shrug off such an anti-democratic structure as “just the way it is.”