The Presidential Election of 2016
Spring, 2017
Seminars ~ OLLI at LSU ~ Bulletin, Spring, 2017
Course Webpage: http://bodoc.net/lag/y170202_2016election

Internet Resources

Basic Documents

The Constitution of the United States --from Findlaw.com

Presidential Elections --from the Scout Report - A Superb Website

History of Voting --from the Gilder Lehrman Institute

18 U.S. Code Title 29 - Elections and Political Activities
Federal Election Commission
Federal Campaign Finance Laws --from the FEC
Campaign Finance Brochure --from the FEC

The Twelfth Amendment --from Wikipedia.com

Twentieth Amendment Annotated --from congress.gov
Sessions of Congress --from thegreenpapers.com
Special Sessions of Congress --from the U.S. Senate

The Electoral College - the 2016 Presidential Election --from the National Archives

The Electoral College --from the National Archives

The Electoral College --from procon.org

Historic Election Results --from archives.gov Presidential Elections --from history.com

Louisiana Secretary of State - Elections and Voting

Louisiana 2016 Certificate of Ascertainment --Certifying November 8, 2016 Results
For All States

The Faithless Elector--from Wikipedia
Faithless Electors --from Fairvote.com
Faithless Electors - State Laws - from Fairvote.com

The Electoral Could Be the GOP's Final Option to Dump Donald Trump --from New York Magazine, August, 2016

The Electoral College --from Encyclopedia Britannica

Alexander Hamilton, Federalist 68 --An explanation and defense of the Electoral College

Electoral College --from freedictionary.com

Maryland General Election Ballot, 2012

Louisiana General Election Ballot (East Baton Rouge Parish), 2012

Voting Systems Made Simple --from Electoral Reform Society

Thomas H. Neale, "The Electoral College: How It Works in Contemporary Presidential Elections," --from the Congressional
Research Service, April 13, 2016

"Trump's Victory Another Example of How Electoral College Wins Are Bigger Than Popular Vote Ones" --from the PEW Research Center

Donald J. Trump -- Official website

The Trump Transition Team and Cabinet Nominees --from greatagain.gov

Lawrence Lessig, "The Constitution Lets the  Electoral College Choose the Winner: They Should Choose Clinton" --from the
Washington Post, November 24, 2016

President and Vice-President Exempt from Conflict of Interest Laws --from the U.S. Code, 18 U.S. Code 202

President and Vice-President Exempt from Conflict of Interest Laws --from the U.S. Justice Department

Jonathan Turley, "Trump is Legally Correct: Ethics Rules Do Not Apply to Him" --from JonathanTurley.org

Norman Eiser, Richard D. Painter and Lawrence Tribe, "Five Ways You'll Know If Trump is Playing by the Rules" --from Politico.com

Kathleen Clark and Boyden Gray, Debate on Exempting the President from Cnflict of Interest Laws  --from The New York Times, December 7, 2016

Women Candidates for President --from the Digital Public Library

Donald Trump Inaugural Address, January 20, 2017 --from christianpost.com

A New Nation Votes - American Election Returns - 1787 to 1825  --from Tufts University

Electoral Votes - 1789 to 2016 --from 270towin.org

Bill Allison and others, "Tracking the 2016 Presidential Money Race" --from Bloomberg.com

Donald Trump Escalator Speech, June 15, 2015 --from CBSnews.com

Polling

Polling as of November 8, 2017 --from fivethirtyeight.com

Campaign Financing

Campaign Spending in 2016 --from metrocosm.com

Public Financing of Presidential Campaigns --from the Federal Election Commission
Campaign Finance Regulations --from Ballotpedia.org
Trump Campaign Financing in 2016
Clinton Campaign Financing in 2016


The Election Results

Seven Charts Show Who Propelled Trump to Victory  --from Businessinsider.com

"How Many Votes Did Trump and Clinton Get: The Final Count" --from dailywire.com

Jason Eaisley, "Here's The Proof That Jill Stein and Gary Johnson Cost Hillary Clinton the
Election" --from politicsusa.com

270towin.com --An important website
Election Timeline --from 270towin.com
The 2016 Election Results Under Alternative Voting Methods --from 270towin.com

Final 2016 Election Results --from realclearpolitics.com

Timeline of 2016 Election --from Wikipedia

Voter Turnout in 2016 --from dailydot.com

The Counting of the Electoral Vote --from the Congressional Record, January 6, 2017

Election Results - 2016 --from Politico.com
How Maine and Nebraska Voted in 2016 --from Fairvote.org
2016 Presidential Election Results --from Wikipedia.org
2016 Presidential Election Resuts --from Ballotpedia.org

Fairvote.org --A rich source of electoral materials

Court Cases

McPherson v. Blacker (1892) --Supreme Court case on the Electoral College
McPherson v. Blacker (1892) --Excerpt in The Founder's Constitution

Ray v. Blair (1952)

Buckley v. Valeo (1976) and Subsequent Litigation --from Encyclopedia Britannica

Bush v. Gore (2000)


Electoral Problems and Reform

Senator Barbara Boxer, A Bill Proposing a Constitutional Amendment to Abolish the Electoral College --from congress.gov

Laurin L. Henry, "The Awkward Interval" --from American tage Magazine, October, 1968

"Time to End  the Electoral College" --from The New York Times, December 20, 2016

Electoral Vote by States - 1789-2008 --from the National Archives and Records Administration

Project Vote Smart

Do You Know Which Four Presidents Were Elected Without Winning the Popular Vote? --from americanhistory.about.com

Electoral College Reform Options --from fairvote.org

Voting in Louisiana --from the Secretary of State

Presidential Candidates - 2016 --from theFederal Election Commission

Election Update - Audio - Diane Rehm Show - October 27, 2016

2016 Presidential Candidate General Election Events Tracker --from Google - maintained by Fairvote

Election of 2016 --from PEW Research Center

Michael Barone, "Ditching the Electoral College Would Allow California to Impose Imperial Rule
 on a Coloniall America" --from The Washington Post, December 8, 2016

E.J. Dionne, "Minority Rule" --from The Washington Post, December 8, 2016

"The Small-State Advantage in the Electoral College" --from The New York Times, March 10, 2013

Sean Sullivan and Ed O'Keefe, "Electors for Trump Urged to Have Second Thoughts" --from The Washington Post, December 7, 2016

"An Electoral College Coup: the Clinton Campaign Now Suggests That the Election Was Rigged"
--from The Wall Street Journal - December 12, 2016

The Hamilton Defenders --A Group Challenging The Election Outcome

James Kenneth Rogers, "The Other ay to Amend the Constitution: the Article V Constitutional Convention
Amendment Process" --from The Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy

Counting the Electoral Votes in Congress --3 U.S. Code 15

Ruth Silva, "The Lodge-Gosset Resolution: A Critical Analysis" --from The American Political Science Review (1950)

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., "Not the People's Choice," March 2, 2002 --from prospect.org

The National Commission on Federal Electoral Reform, "To Assure Pride and Confidence in the Electoral Process"
2001


Howard J. Silver, "NPresidential Nominations: A Quick History"  (2016) --from socialsciencespace.com

Commentary

Richard Hofstetter, "The Paranoid Style in American Politics" --from Harper's Magazine, November, 1964

James Traub, "The First Rigged Election" --from The Wall Street Journal, October 29, 2016

Arthur Goldhammer, “What Would Alexis de Tocqueville Have Made of the 2016 US Presidential Election?”
--from The Nation, October 17, 2016

Peggy Noonan, "The Politics of 'The Shallows'" --from The Wall Street Journal, October 1, 2016

"Two States Which Almost Always Predict Which Candidate is Headed For Defeat" --from the Washington Post, September 7, 2016

Ana Navarro, "I'm Voting for Hillary and Against Donald Trump," November 8, 2016 --from cnn.com

David Remnick, "An American Tragedy," --from The New Yorker, November 9, 2016

James Fallows, "How Trump Broke Campaign Norms But Still Won," --from Fresh Air, NPR, November 9, 2016 [Audio]

Trevor Potter, Campaign Legal Center - Response to Trump Campaign and Election - November 10, 2016

"Donald Trump's Victory Was Built on Unique Coalition of White Voters" --from The New York Times, November 9, 2016

"Mr. Trump Lies About the Vote" --from The New York Times, November 29, 2016

"Presidential Election Results" --from procon.org

"The 282 People, Places and Things Donald Trump Has Insulted on Twitter: A Complete List" --from The New York Times, October 23, 2016

Robert Reich, "Trump's 7 Techniques to Control the Media" --from The Daily Southtown (Chicago, IL), December 2, 2016

Jose M. Pavía, "On Introducing Proportionality in American Presidential Elections: An Historical Analysis, 1828-2008" --from The Political
Quarterly, July-September, 2011

Gary Glenn, "The Electoral College and the Development of American Democracy" --from Perspectives in Political Science, Winter, 2013

Christopher Suprun, "Why I Will Not Cast My Electoral Vote For Donald Trump" - from The New York Times, December 5, 2016

Ellen Nakashima, Adam Entous, and Greg Miller "CIA: Russia Favored Trump" --from The Washington Post, December 10, 2016

Rheta Grimsley Johnson, "When the Truth Doesn't Matter" --from The Advocate, December 11, 2016

E. J. Dionne, "American Will Soon Be Ruled By a Minority" --from The Advocate, December 11, 2016

Battleground States --from Ballotpedia.org

Mark Sherrer, "Person of the Year: Cover Story" --from Time, December, 2016

The Progressive Magazine --A progressive publication

Barbara Boxer, "Trump Undermines Our Republic" --from USA Today, December 21, 2016

Indivisible - The name of a group dedicated to opposing the implementation of Donald Trump's policies

Jonathan Alter, "Seven Reasons Why Clinton Lost in 2016"  --from thedailybeast.com

President Obama's Farewell Address, January 10, 2017 --from The Los Angeles Times

President-elect Donald Trump's News Conference, January 11, 2017 --from The New York Times

Susan Chira, "Women Who Voted for Donald Trump, in Their Own Words" --from The New York Times, January 15, 2017

Michael J. Boskin, "Four Lessons From Donald Trump’s U.S. Election Victory" –from The Guardian, December 13, 2016