X-Runner wrote:
Ghost of Igloi wrote:
Fortunately the Constitution created an Electoral College just so the majority could not control the states where their population had a different view.
Explain yourself.
It looks like the electoral college was initially created so that electors could choose the president they want regardless of what the people voted for.
"The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows
Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector."
Each state shall appoint its electors as it wishes.
No requirement for citizens to vote or how states choose their electors.
And initially states would divide up their electoral votes between and among candidates.
It wasn't winner take all for each state.
The use of the electoral college to determine the president has vastly evolved since the writing of the Constitution, so you cannot credit the Constitution's genius for the results we get today.