I’m a sometimes defender of the Electoral College. You can understand the usefulness of magnifying majorities through winner-take-all state elections. Even more importantly, the EC makes it very hard for a wealthy outsider to swoop in and buy the presidency.1
The downside is that the Electoral College provides a great deal of democ…
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