Hearing the Falconer #14 ~ 22-March-2019 ~ Do we still need the electoral college?

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world....
from The Second Coming, William Butler Yeats, 1919

The middle of the road is all of the usable surface.
The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

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22-March-2019: Do we still need the electoral college?
Elizabeth Wants to Kill the Electoral College
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A good idea from the left.

Elizabeth Warren is right: it is time to end the electoral college.

In the early days of America the electoral college was intended to be a check on the will of the people: if the people elected someone unfit for office the electors could step in and choose someone else.

That can't happen anymore. Virtually all electors are now legally required to vote for whichever candidate won the popular vote in their state.

The electors have become rubber stamps.

We don't need rubber stamps.

It is time for the electoral college to go!

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The "Hearing the Falconer" Library

Books for Indpendent Thinkers

Moderates: The Vital Center of American Politics, from the Founding to Today

The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made It

Unapologetically Moderate: My Search for the Rational Center in American Politics

The Deliberate Moderate: Influencing From the Middle

Eisenhower: The White House Years

The Constitutional Convention: A Narrative History from the Notes of James Madison

Lincoln

Reflections of a Radical Moderate

Washington: A Life

The Reluctant Republican: My Fight for the Moderate Majority