Sorry, We're Stuck With The Electoral College. But There Is A Workaround

Joseph J. Ellis, Los Angeles Times
Sun, 01/20/2019 - 4:15am

The electoral college was an unwanted child from the beginning. Born in Philadelphia in mid-August 1787, when most delegates to the Constitutional Convention were eager to escape the heat and humidity and go home, it was the fruit of a compromise between the two warring factions at the convention:...

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