stopthatgirl7Majority of Americans continue to favor moving away from Electoral College
65% of U.S. adults say the way the president is elected should be changed so that the winner of the popular vote nationwide wins the presidency.
danieltonThey told me in high school that the electoral college was still necessary because counting the popular vote was too hard…
Did your teachers perhaps get their college diplomas in the 1870s? Because that predates the first tabulating machines being invented. Add that invention to the telegraph machine (ca 1837), and you’ve got a stew going.
I wish I was kidding! My school district wasn’t too bright.