Every few years, we in the United States endure something like the sweats of malaria while certain people, devoted to “democracy,” call to abolish the Electoral College, now merely a counting system whereby each state is assigned an electoral weight based on its representation in Congress—the sum of its senators and representatives. There are two main lines of the argument.
The first is that because of the College, a president can be elected without a majority or a plurality of the vote. In elections involving two main candidates, this has happened three times: 1888 (Harrison over Cleveland), 2000 (Bush over Gore), and 2016 (Trump over Clinton). In two of those cases, the plurality held by the losing candidate (not a majority) was minuscule. In the third case, 2016, the 2.1 percent edge in Hillary Clinton’s plurality was more than covered by her popularity in California alone. I do not believe that most Americans wish to be governed by the woolly ways of that state, which have gone, in my lifetime, from an energetic experiment in self-rule to utter dysfunction.
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