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Sep 2020
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Alexander Keyssar, "Why Do We Still Have...

Marshall Poe
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The title of Harvard historian Alexander Keyssar,’s new book poses the question that comes up every presidential election cycle: Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? (Harvard University Press, 2020). Keyssar presents the reader with a deep, layered, and complex analysis not only of the institution of the Electoral College itself, drawing out how it ca ... Show More
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