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Mr Roosevelt says the founders didn’t see the partisan tilt of the Electoral College coming “because they didn’t anticipate political parties”. “The Electoral College has always had a ...
The veteran political reporter tells PEOPLE about the arguments for and against the United States' controversial Electoral College system
Carolyn R. Dupont is a historian and professor at Eastern Kentucky University and the author of “Distorting Democracy: The Forgotten History of the Electoral College — and Why it Matters Today.”
Skelton: Before the presidential election slips into gloomy history, we pause to slam our moldy, undemocratic electoral college.
The Electoral College was officially selected as the means of electing president towards the end of the Constitutional Convention, due to pressure from slave states wanting to increase their voting power, since they could count slaves as 3/5 of a person when allocating electors, and by small states who increased their power given the minimum of ...
The Electoral College acts as a safeguard to one of the primary fears of the Founding Fathers: tyranny. James Madison argued that a pure democracy paved the way for tyranny.
The Electoral College forces candidates to appeal to a wider range of voters across different ... (All political bribes would be accepted only on the third Wednesday after the second Friday of ...
The Electoral College also disproportionally represents smaller states. The number of electoral votes a state receives is equal to the number of senators and representatives a state has.