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The digital environment allows for the customization of information, with individuals never seemingly being exposed to opposing viewpoints. There is a long-standing belief that exposure to both sides of an argument will moderate political attitudes, and there is empirical evidence that voters often do self-moderate, saying that internet users ...
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.
Notably, in all of these except 2000, the Electoral College algorithm reversed or threatened to undo decisive popular vote victories. The increasing frequency of these once rare “inverted ...
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 ...
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 founders’ main reason for opposing the national popular vote has literally disappeared. ... Unlike the Electoral College, a national popular vote is something that the founders specifically ...
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 ...