The Electoral College Does Not Work

William B. Turner
Nov 5 · 2 min read

The Founders believed that the electoral college would serve to ensure that only the best (property owning white) men would become president. We have since decided that allowing only property owning white men to vote and hold public office is a bad idea.

In 2000 and 2016, thanks to the electoral college, we got presidents who were clearly not the best candidates and who proved to be poor presidents.

Since 2016, defenders of our worst president yet have taken up the cry that the electoral college serves to ensure that the lightly populated…

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William B. Turner

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Uppity gay, Buddhist, author, historian.

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