{"id":967,"date":"2020-12-17T21:21:30","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T02:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/political-science-and-law\/?p=967"},"modified":"2020-12-17T21:21:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T02:21:30","slug":"professor-ian-drake-argues-in-support-of-electoral-college-as-growing-movement-seeks-to-remove-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/political-science-and-law\/2020\/12\/17\/professor-ian-drake-argues-in-support-of-electoral-college-as-growing-movement-seeks-to-remove-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Ian Drake Argues in Support of Electoral College as Growing Movement Seeks to Remove It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">The National Popular Vote is trying to change the way Americans elect the president. But in a recent interview on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\/politics\/movement-seeks-to-remove-electoral-college-elect-president-by-popular-vote\/\">NewsNationNow<\/a>, Political Science Professor Ian Drake argues the Electoral College is working just fine.<\/span> The interview with Professor Drake begins at minute 5:00 in the video.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/opinion\/2020\/12\/today-the-electoral-college-picks-a-us-president-and-shows-us-why-we-need-it-opinion.html\">OpEd for NJ.com<\/a>, <span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Drake explains why this system is so important and why the Electoral College decides who leads the country.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Popular Vote is trying to change the way Americans elect the president. But in a recent interview on NewsNationNow, Political Science Professor Ian Drake argues the Electoral College is working just fine. The interview with Professor Drake begins at minute 5:00 in the video. In an OpEd for NJ.com, Drake explains why this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/political-science-and-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/political-science-and-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/political-science-and-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/political-science-and-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/political-science-and-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/political-science-and-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":969,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/political-science-and-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions\/969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/political-science-and-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/political-science-and-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/political-science-and-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/political-science-and-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}