Simple Defense of the Electoral College
To my recollection, there has not been a time when the Electoral College has been so severely under attack by Democrats (whose only Presidential election losses this millennium, save one, were when they lost the electoral vote, despite winning the popular vote) and so vigorously defended by Republicans for all the wrong reasons (solely that it gives them a chance to win, despite clearly being less popular than the Democrats). More disheartening is the fact that most people do not understand the rationale for the Electoral College. To most, it is an anachronistic mechanism, developed solely as a utilitarian function for practically conducting a nationwide election in the 18 th Century. To others, it was a means of exploitation by wealthy landowners, ensuring that they would always control the levers of power (a ridiculous notion, considering such landowners could have easily established a more robust aristocratic system, modeled after Great Britain after the Revolutionary War, with t...