That isn't correct. Article 2 of the Constitution provides that the person receiving a majority of electoral college votes "shall" be President. Because this is a state rights point (a… (View Post)

With this talk of "punching up" etc, I'd note that another phrase that annoys me is "don't kick a man when he's down". In my experience, that's the very best t… (View Post)

Cheers, Peter Ustinov. Tremendous anecdote. (View Post)

Tiverton and Honiton is scythed apart by boundary changes. Boundary changes help the Lib Dems in their Somerset gain, but in Devon it puts a lot of very blue areas into two separate seats. Richard Fo… (View Post)

1974 by Denis Healey, I believe. There were more tax bands then, of course, so slightly tricky to say what "basic rate" means. (View Post)