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Article: EDITORIAL: Save the Electoral College: Going to direct popular vote in presidential elections would cause more harm than good.(Editorial)
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- The News-Sentinel (Fort Wayne, IN)
- Article date:
- April 12, 2007
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Apr. 12--If you can't get the Constitution amended -- a deliberately complicated and laborious process -- then just work around the pesky document. That's the strategy of Birch Bayh, still at his lifelong quest to replace the Electoral College with direct election of the president by popular vote. His attempt is starting to gain some traction, but it was a bad idea when he first proposed it nearly 40 years ago and remains a bad idea today. Dumping the electoral system would create far more harm than good. Bayh, father of Indiana's junior U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh, first proposed a constitutional amendment to abolish the Electoral College when he was a senator, in 1970. It ...