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Article: Even the best arguments for the Electoral College seem less a statement of principle than a defense of entrenched privilege.
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- November 1, 2004
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As Americans go to the polls in a few days, many will be worrying
about a repeat of the drama and pain of the 2000 election, in which
George W. Bush became the first president in more than a century to
win an Electoral College majority without also winning a popular-
vote plurality. Despite the apparent injustice of such a result, many
still wish to retain the Electoral College and risk again the turmoil
of 2000. But the arguments mustered in defense of the Electoral
College are strikingly weak; so weak, in fact, that if the Electoral
College did not already exist, we would surely not now seek to invent
it.