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Skelton: Before the presidential election slips into gloomy history, we pause to slam our moldy, undemocratic electoral college.
The US’s Electoral College system is now functioning far from how its creators originally intended, Gustaf Kilander writes. In the most powerful democracy in the world, two of its last four ...
Started in the mid-2000s, the compact is an agreement among states pledging to award their electoral votes to the candidate who wins the national popular vote, effectively bypassing the Electoral ...
The closest the United States has come to abolishing the Electoral College occurred during the 91st Congress (1969–1971). [14] The presidential election of 1968 resulted in Richard Nixon receiving 301 electoral votes (56% of electors), Hubert Humphrey 191 (35.5%), and George Wallace 46 (8.5%) with 13.5% of the popular vote. However, Nixon had ...
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.
A government with no mandate saps respect and confidence from American institutions. ... Defend the Electoral College if you wish, but don’t pretend you are advocating for the Framers’ design.
Two of those candidates, Theodore Roosevelt and John C. Breckinridge, finished with the second-highest share of the electoral vote. Since 1796, just one independent candidate, Ross Perot, has accrued more than ten percent of the popular or electoral vote. [10]