” the framers never wanted the “winner take all” Electoral College that it has become,”
Can you provide any authority for this remarkable statement?
Nope. I merely stated that it was the point of the author. If she is wrong, OK. But there’s nothing in the Constitution prescribing the “winner take all” approach, either. It says the states can decide how they select them, correct?
If you read Article 2, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution, which was later amended through the 12th Amendment, it seems as if the founders of this country anticipated that the “House tiebreaker” process would happen on a fairly regular basis. This would be the case if you had regional parties and more than two major candidates in any presidential election who had enough regional appeal to win electoral votes in a presidential election.