Allen, Jonathan. The Hill N.p., 31 May 2006. Web. 19 Nov. 2009.
Jonathan Allen is a reporter for POLITICO, a well known political news source that is mainly online. The news articles are used by other news commentators and personalities. I used this article for information on Robert Byrd.
Berns, Walter, 2nd ed. "A "Complex" System?." After the People Vote. 2nd ed. Washington, D.C.: The AEI Press, 1992. Print.
Walter Berns is also a professor emeritus at Georgetown University. A scholar of political philosophy and constitutional law, he has written extensively on American government and politics in both professional and popular journals. He is the author of numerous books on democracy, the Constitution, and patriotism. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2005. He wrote a guide to the Electoral College that has been used as an academic standard. The information that I found most useful was used as my rebottles to my counter arguments.
Boyd, Richard W. “Decline of U.S. Voter Turnout: Structural Explanations.” American Politics Quarterly 9 (1981): 133-159.
Richard Boyd is a professor at Cornell University and specializes in the philosophy of almost every kind, especially Marxism. He touched on the trends of voters in the United States. He attempts to find the reason for this. The voting turnout was a section of my paper so this came into good use.
CNN N.p., 2005. Web. 22 Nov. 2009.
CNN is one of the most widely listened to cable news sources in the world. The information that I used from CNN is the election data in 2000.
Crewe, Ivor. Democracy at the Polls: A Comparative Study of Competitive national Elections, eds. David Butler, Howard R. Penniman, and Austin Ranney. Washington, D.C.: American enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1981.
The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research is a private, nonpartisan, not-for-profit institution dedicated to research and education on issues of government, politics, economics, and social welfare. This had lots of information on voting statistics and trends, it held more information than opinion.
Gregg, Gary L, ed. Securing Democracy: Why We Have an Electoral College. Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2001. Print.
Gary L. Gregg II, Ph.D holds the Mitch McConnell Chair in Leadership at the University of Louisville and is director of the McConnell Center. He is the author or editor of six books. He is an award-winning teacher and has been the national director of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. This book was helpful because besides from being in-depth, it was also somewhat recent in comparison.
Hardaway, Robert M. The Electoral College and the Constitution: The Case for Preserving Federalism. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1994. Print.
Robert Hardaway is the author of fourteen published books on law and public policy, and 29 law review articles, reviews, and articles in professional journals. He has written over 75 opinion editorials in national newspapers on issues of law and public policy, and appears frequently on television and in the media commenting on legal issues. His book was one of the most indepth books that addressed several issues on why we should keep the Electoral College.
Information Please N.p., 2007. Web. 22 Nov. 2009.
Information Please has been providing authoritative answers to all kind of factual questions since 1938, but first began as a popular radio quiz show. Then in 1947 they started to produce an annual almanac, which still currently is released today. They have had a website since 1998. I used the information that they had from the 2000 elections.
Lowenstein, Daniel, narr. The Electoral College and National Popular Vote. FORA.tv, 2008. Film.
Daniel Lowenstein teaches Election Law, Statutory Interpretation & Legislative Process, Political Theory, and Law & Literature. A leading expert on election law, he has represented members of the House of Representatives in litigation regarding reapportionment and the constitutionality of term limits. Professor Lowenstein wrote a text book that is the first text on American election laws since 1877. He was in a debate about the Electoral College where he made five point on why it should stay in place.
McDonald, Michael. United States Elections Project N.p., 2009. Web. 20 Nov. 2009.
Dr. Michael P. McDonald is Associate Professor of Government and Politics in the Department of Public and International Affairs at George Mason University and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from University of California, San Diego and B.S. in Economics from California Institute of Technology. Dr. McDonald has worked for the national exit poll organization, consulted to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, consulted to the Pew Center for the States, served on campaign staff for state legislative campaigns in California and Virginia, has worked for national polling firms, has been an expert witness for election lawsuits in Florida and Washington, and has worked as a redistricting consultant or expert witness in Alaska, Arizona, California, Michigan, and New York. He has worked as a media consultant to ABC and NBC, and is frequently quoted in the media regarding United States elections. His opinion editorials have appeared in The Washington Post, The Politico, The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, The American Prospect, and Roll Call.
Miller, Warren E., and J. Shanks. The New American Voter. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996. Print.
Warren Miller was known as a renowned scholar and voting expert. He was active in the continuing research on U.S. elections at the Center for Political Studies, which he founded at the U-M Institute for Social Research. His book “The American Voter,” is considered to be the leading original scholarly work that influenced a generation of political pollsters and reporters. He also wrote the 1966 landmark book "Elections and Political Order" and recently extended his past work with a major volume on voting behavior, titled "The New American Voter." In all, he wrote nine books and several book chapters and journal articles. Because this book is a leading original I was able to gather much information because it hit on so many different topics.
Pianin, Eric. "A Senator's Shame." The Washington Post 19 June 2005. Web. 21 Nov. 2009.
Eric Pianin writes several articles for the Washington Post as a news journalist. The Washinton Post one of the largest newspapers in America. It has such a large circulation that it is a newspaper of record, meaning it has authorization by the government to publish public or legal notices. Pianin’s article is where I gathered formal information on Senator Robert Byrd.
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