(December 3, 2016 at 10:00 am)Tonus Wrote:(December 1, 2016 at 3:52 pm)abaris Wrote: Elected exclusively by American standards. I would be hard pressed to name another country where the losing candidate actually leads by 2.5 million votes according to latest counts.
I think that the founding fathers of the US understood that the electoral college could lead to that result. While they would not have wanted it to happen, they felt it important enough to give low-population states a say to take the risk.
I honestly don't think they gave two shits about small population states. They had two reasons for the electoral college, both favouring the south, the first being to overweight the slave owning states to ensure that a huge majority would be needed to end slavery (which eventually happened anyways) and the second to maintain the position of oligarchic government which was the hallmark of the southern colonies (and later states).
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