Peter Beinhart is wrong! Again, but that’s a long, long story. The electoral college was NOT designed to stop any individual who is constitutionally eligible from being elected. It was designed to ensure that the states all have a say in electing the president and not just large population centers. Period.
In 2008 and again in 2012, it did not even stop the Constitutionally ineligible Obama.
Who is Peter Brainfart?