Diary of a Congressional Candidate in Florida's Fourth Congressional District


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Originally published online as a regular feature on the McSweeney's Internet Tendency website, Richard Grayson's diary chronicles the hopeless 2004 campaign of an emo-loving vegetarian short story writer against a right-wing incumbent in Florida's most Republican congressional district. With his support of socialized medicine, abortion on demand, gay marriage and immediate withdrawal from Iraq anathema to most of his conservative constituency, Grayson jokes his way through a quixotic campaign to capture the hearts and minds of the minority of North Florida voters who possess those organs. For now you can download the entire book by clicking on Preview.




Congressional Record


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Those Seventies Stories


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Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States


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Some vols. include supplemental journals of "such proceedings of the sessions, as, during the time they were depending, were ordered to be kept secret, and respecting which the injunction of secrecy was afterwards taken off by the order of the House."










Electoral College Reform


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Contents: (1) Intro.; (2) Competing Approaches: Direct Popular Election v. Electoral College Reform; (3) Direct Popular Election: Pro and Con; (4) Electoral College Reform: Pro and Con; (5) Electoral College Amendments Proposed in the 111th Congress; (6) Contemporary Activity in the States; (7) 2004: Colorado Amendment 36; (8) 2007-2008: The Presidential Reform Act (California Counts); (9) 2006-Present: National Popular Vote -- Direct Popular Election Through an Interstate Compact; Origins; The Plan; National Popular Vote, Inc.; Action in the State Legislatures; States That Have Approved NPV; National Popular Vote; (10) Prospects for Change -- An Analysis; (11) State Action -- A Viable Reform Alternative?; (12) Concluding Observations.