After immersing myself in the mysteries of the Electoral College for a novel I wrote in the '90s, I came away believing that the case for scrapping it is less obvious than I originally thought.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Most people don't understand the Electoral College; they don't know why it exists.
The Electoral College was necessary when communications were poor, literacy was low, and voters lacked information about out-of-state figures, which is clearly no longer the case.
It's clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush.
The Town Clerkship, however, was the means of giving me a lesson in electoral methods.
I think I've had my fill of electoral law.
I thought that that was an effort to inject a popular element, a democratic element into the selection of a person who, once he is selected and confirmed, is beyond electoral control.
Even if you only counted the votes that actually made it through the hoops in order to be cast, the president was really Al Gore.
Sometimes in politics, you get a wallop in the electoral process.
The 2000 election exposed some ugly history in our country.
No one likes the Electoral College, expect perhaps those who were elected because of it. No one likes gerrymandering, except those doing the gerrymandering. No one likes the filibuster, except those doing the filibustering.
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