Tom Mast
Congress’s Electoral Methods
Tom Mast, founder Solve American Gridlock January 2023 This post to the Solve American Gridlock website blog and our Facebook page begins...
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Tom Mast
Jan 12, 20232 min
Surgery for Congress
Tom Mast, founder Solve American Gridlock January 2023 PROBLEM Congress is quite ill, dating from about 1967 Various ineffective...
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Jan 5, 20234 min
Speaker of the House Election
Tom Mast, founder of Solve American Gridlock January 3, 2023 I decided to jot down some thoughts today, January 3, after watching some of...
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Dec 2, 20224 min
Let’s Establish a Functional Congress
Tom Mast, founder of Solve American Gridlock Let me point out at the outset that this paper focuses solely on electoral methods for the...
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Nov 5, 20222 min
Electoral Reforms are Achievable
Tom Mast, founder Solve American Gridlock Reference: LA Times of 9-23-22 The LA Times reported in an upbeat manner on the efforts of the...
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Oct 31, 20224 min
Let’s Establish a Functional Congress
Tom Mast, founder of Solve American Gridlock Let me point out at the outset that this paper focuses solely on electoral methods for the...
Tom Mast
Oct 25, 20223 min
Polarization and Dysfunction in Congress and in the States Too!
Tom Mast, Solve American Gridlock founder Reference: The Disunited States, The Economist, September 3, 2022 The lead editorial in the...
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Oct 18, 20221 min
Tale of Two Parties III
Tom Mast, founder Solve American Gridlock #congress #politics What has been happening in Congress the past decade? Regular order has...
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Oct 13, 20222 min
Tale of Two Parties II
Tom Mast, founder Solve American Gridlock #congress #politics Political parties have existed in America almost since its inception. ...
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Oct 8, 20221 min
Tale of Two Parties I
Tom Mast, founder Solve American Gridlock #congress #politics Drutman writes in Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop about the views of...
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Oct 6, 20223 min
Congressional Elections: Do They Work Well?
Tom Mast, founder of Solve American Gridlock We are scheduled to have another election in early November to elect members of the U.S....
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Sep 29, 20222 min
Summary of Posts on Blog of Solve American Gridlock’s website and on Facebook
Tom Mast, founder Solve American Gridlock We publish ten Posts each month on both the Blog section of our website at...
Tom Mast
Sep 27, 20225 min
Pivotal Changes Imperative for Congress
PROBLEM Congress has become dysfunctional due to the warring of its two parties resulting in great damage to its ability to solve...
Tom Mast
Sep 22, 20223 min
Ranked Choice Voting (RCV)
Tom Mast – founder, Solve American Gridlock Ranked Choice Voting – Defined Ranked Choice Voting (RCV), also known as instant runoff...
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Sep 20, 20222 min
Root Causes of the Student Loan Debt Crisis
Tom Mast, Solve American Gridlock Rachel Larimore wrote in The Dispatch Weekly on August 27 her article Very Expensive Week. It focused...
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Sep 15, 20222 min
Multimember Districts
Tom Mast, founder Solve American Gridlock If I were you, I wouldn’t bother to read this article if you love the following results that...
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Sep 13, 20222 min
Let’s Pretend
Tom Mast, founder Solve American Gridlock Let’s pretend, please, something that won’t work your grey cells too hard. Pretend that for...
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Sep 1, 20221 min
Block Voting
Tom Mast, founder of Solve American Gridlock Congress has sunk into near-100% voting by party. Why? What are the root causes of members...
Tom Mast
Aug 23, 20223 min
See Saw Congress (Unsteady, careen, lurch)
Tom Mast, founder Solve American Gridlock PROBLEM Over the past roughly 10-25 years, our U.S. Congress has evolved into a bipolar entity,...
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Aug 2, 20222 min
“Takes Two to Make a Fight”
Tom Mast, founder Solve American Gridlock One day long ago when we were little children, my sister and I had a disagreement in the...
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