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Article: The brilliance of the Electoral College
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 16, 2008
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OVER THE LAST two centuries, constitutional amendments to abolish
or alter the Electoral College have been proposed in Congress more
than 700 times. None has ever come close to being adopted - an
indication, perhaps, of the existing system's enduring value. The
most recent such proposal, introduced by US Senator Bill Nelson of
Florida, would eliminate the Electoral College in favor of direct
popular election of the president. "If the principle of one-person-
one-vote is to mean anything," Nelson declares, "the candidate who
wins a majority of the votes should win the presidency."
Actually, in no more than four of the nation's 54 presidential
elections since 1789 has the electoral vote ...
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