It was designed to stop Hillaries...
No, it was meant to stop large population areas from dominating the entire country. And it works just as it was intended.
Wrong. It’s supposed to stop pervert criminals like Hillary from becoming president.
LOL!
it was meant to stop states like NY and California from imposing unpopular cheating frauds like Hillary on the entire nation
I think it was the other way around. It did what it was supposed to do.
It was designed to give all the states a say in who became President and to insure that high population states did not dominate the government. Exactly as it did this past election.
This actually is Fake News
Why do these liberals feel the need to drop their pants, squat and crap in public?
It’s gross and unsanitary, but like this author they do it anyway.
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.
This tool uses the word “democratic” 25 times in his article.
He say it like he understands it, but he doesn’t: We live in a Republic, not a Democracy.
In actuality, the Electoral College was meant to protect us from a candidate like Hillary Clinton.
Silly liberals. American democracy was invented to stop people like the Clintons from using their existing political power to create corrupt, perpetual dynasties. Turns out it worked pretty well. :)
It addresses how Obama got elected...when the gimmees outnumber the workers.
Tells intent of the Electoral College
Discusses lack of a check on the Supreme Court
I believe you can read it on line via google books.
yikes....nothing in the article addresses\proves the headline.
The article is injected with the writer’s own fearful opinions about a Trump presidency.
Peter entirely misstates the real purpose of the Electoral College and translates that something I’d only conclude is a woefully inept comparison (either accidental or on purpose).
Popular vote is MOB RULE, make no bones about that. And the electoral college assures that each and EVERY state of these UNITED STATES in this Union have their fair say. To do otherwise would submit this country to the whims of a few INFESTATIONS of highly populated areas of closed-minded and irrational selfish people.
The electoral college isn’t a fantasy; it is clearly defined in the US Constitution which also dictates how it is to function. To do away with it is the equivalent of denying the Constitution itself.
IOW, horseshit, Peter.
It was meant to stop criminals like the democrat party from stuffing ballot boxes to win a national population vote and it did!
wow people will sit down in a dr’s office and read this out of the atlantic and feel like they are ‘informed’. I can see what they’re doing here. They’re trying to paint that the Electoral College Doesn’t work.
Trump is amazing. He has made the Left to start quoting Dead White Males with reverence.
Bears repeating!
Meanwhile, Beinart’s fellow travelers are claiming the opposite of what he states in his headline. Not that Beinart has ever made any sense.
So many things people say now about the electoral college crack me up.
Some people argue “it almost always gives the “right” result, matching the popular vote”. Of course, if it always matches the popular vote, it isn’t doing anything.
The entire point was that we did not WANT the person who got the most votes, we wanted the person who demonstrated majority popularity throughout the country.
Like Donald Trump having the support of the plurality of people in 30 or the 50 states, or 60%, while Clinton had only 40%, plus of course the city of DC.
Good try at leftwing propaganda.
The electoral College was one of the checks put in place so that the smaller areas of large population could not control the entire country. The forefathers called it exactly right and set up a system that defeated the clinton crime family and the useful idiots who supported her.
Once again the constitution worked exactly as it was designed to work. One more time, the liberals are frustrated and angry at the FACT that they are limited by what they believe is an outdated and worthless document.
Just wait until the conservatives introduce the Super Nuclear Option and send SCOTUS candidate to the senate floor for an up or down vote based on a simple majority vote.
A few years ago I clearly stated, with a big smirk on my mug, that the democrats were going to live to regret pulling their nuclear option crap. Well, the nuclear option is soon to be extended to SCOTUS confirmations as well and there is not a damn thing the liberals can do about it.
Remember, every democrat needs to clearly remember,that the nuclear option was all your idea.....
Now live with it.
No... it was meant to stop men like Obama from usurping the office as an illegal alien terrorist sympathizer.