Even after agreeing to the Electoral College, founder James Madison said the constitutional congress delegates were impaired by “ the hurry­ing influence produced by fatigue and impatience .”
Yes -- even the person who created it didn't like it and thought it was a cop-out.
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The Electoral College has been described as “ a loaded pistol pointed at our system of government. ” They warned that it created “a game of Russian roulette” because the way it distorts the will of the people could threaten our democracy.
We've already seen the popular vote loser win the White House five times, including twice in the last twenty years .
And this obtuse system of choosing a national leader led directly to the former President -- one of those five who lost the popular vote (in 2016) but still won the office -- attempting to subvert the will of the people by twisting the Electoral College into a mess and when that didn't work, fomented a literal insurrection with supporters breaking into the Capitol Building to disrupt certification of the election. And now he's running again.
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We don’t have to wait for Congress to act, either. The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) is an agreement among a group of U.S. states and the District of Columbia to award all their electoral votes to whichever presidential candidate wins the overall popular vote in the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
Minnesota joined last year, giving NPVIC 16 states plus DC, accounting for 206 electoral votes and 76% of the states needed to essentially make the popular vote the law of the land.
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