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Two alternatives to the Electoral College One option was that Congress could pick the president – a model much like in many European parliamentary democracies, very few of which have a directly ...
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.
Skelton: Before the presidential election slips into gloomy history, we pause to slam our moldy, undemocratic electoral college.
A recent Pew Research Center survey found that 63% of Americans would rather elect the president through a national popular vote, highlighting the Electoral College's anti-democratic "wasted votes ...
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.”
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 causes such narrowcasting, and we should finally do away with it. It won’t happen, of course. It might, had Republicans been winning the popular vote and losing the ...
In the United States Electoral College, a faithless elector is an elector who does not vote for the candidates for U.S. President and U.S. Vice President for whom the elector had pledged to vote, and instead votes for another person for one or both offices or abstains from voting.