Thank you, sir! I didn’t want to speak out of school, so I thought I’d asked. I do recall a lot of back and forth with President and VP back in the early days of our republic.
It was a great system but with one fatal flaw (pardon the pun) to have the runner up in the Electoral College be Vice President.
Imagine if it was President George W. Bush and Vice President Gore under him after the contentious election in 2000- and the rabid hate fest on Bush - amid the ‘West Wing’ fantasies and “popular vote” irrelevancies - there would be an almost fanatical desire on the part of the left to make Gore President via an assassin’s bullet.