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  • The electoral college is a failure. The Founding Fathers would probably agree (Mega Barf Alert)

    04/08/2019 3:09:25 PM PDT · by EdnaMode · 93 replies
    Washington Compost ^ | April 8, 2019 | Joshua Spivak
    As the presidential campaign heats up, so too has the movement to abolish or otherwise neutralize the electoral college. Some advocates argue that the electoral college was originally established to help less-populated states retain power, or to have every part of the country heard from in electing a chief executive. Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) claims the system was designed to help the slave states. But these are modern interpretations of what really happened at the Constitutional Convention of 1787. The electoral college was designed with two purposes: to separate the branches of government in an attempt to avoid “cabals” and...