The Electoral College: Misunderstood, Unappreciated – Jewish Policy Center“The story of the Electoral College,” one pundit recently wrote, “is also one of slavery.”
Such a comment is just the tip of the iceberg.
The Electoral College has been taking quite a beating lately.
Even former President Barack Obama has jumped onto this bandwagon.
“The Electoral College is a vestige,” he told reporters late last year.
“It’s a carry-over…[T]here are some structures in our political system, as envisioned by the Founders, that sometimes are going to disadvantage Democrats.”
...Are these critics right?
Should Americans ditch the system that has given the presidency to a popular vote loser twice in the past sixteen years?
Americans have abolished slavery, given women the right to vote, and expanded civil rights in all sorts of ways.
Isn’t an amendment to eliminate the Electoral College the next logical step?
Emphatically, no.
A little education reveals the truth: The Founders had sound, principled reasons for creating the Electoral College. - They didn’t create it because some of them were slave owners, and they didn’t create it because telephones, television, and 24-hour news channels hadn’t been invented yet.
- Instead, they created the Electoral College because they understood the flaws of human nature – and because they understood the dynamics that had caused other, earlier governments to implode...
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