14 Facts About Norman Ornstein

Norman Jay Ornstein is an American political scientist and an Emeritus scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington, DC conservative think tank.

Norman Ornstein is the co-author of It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism.

Norman Jay Ornstein was born in Grand Rapids, Minnesota on October 14,1948.

Norman Ornstein's father was a traveling salesman, and the family spent much of Norman's childhood in Canada.

Norman Ornstein was a child prodigy, graduated from high school when he was fourteen and from college when he was eighteen.

Norman Ornstein received his BA from the University of Minnesota, and subsequently, received a Ph.

Norman Ornstein wrote a weekly column for Roll Call from 1993 until April 10,2013, and was co-director, along with Thomas E Mann, of the AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project.

Norman Ornstein helped draft key parts of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, known as the McCain-Feingold Act.

Norman Ornstein is a registered Democrat, but considers himself a centrist, and has voted for individuals from both parties.

Norman Ornstein is a member of the advisory board of the Future of American Democracy Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan foundation in partnership with Yale University Press and the Yale Center for International and Area Studies "dedicated to research and education aimed at renewing and sustaining the historic vision of American democracy".

Norman Ornstein served on the advisory board of the Institute for Law and Politics at the University of Minnesota Law School.

Norman Ornstein is on the advisory council of the cross-partisan grassroots campaign Represent.

Norman Ornstein criticized the Electoral College, saying that the more presidents are elected without the popular vote, "the more you get the sense that voters don't have a say in the choice of their leaders".

Norman Ornstein is a long-time friend of former US Senator and comedian Al Franken.