(November 9, 2016 at 12:53 pm)Crossless1 Wrote: Yet we'll slavishly maintain the Electoral College because the Founders weren't just really bright guys working out a decent but flawed set of compromises but were inspired visionaries writing Holy Writ that we question at our peril.
And I'm not griping about the Electoral College because I'm disappointed by the election result. I've long thought it a vestige of our past we would do well to eliminate. If there is no prospect of getting big money out of the election system, then at least make the bastards fight for every vote in every damn state.
I'm all for getting rid of it, but there's the small matter of getting 3/4 of the states to ratify an amendment - and there's more than a quarter that I can think of where it's likely not in their interest to do so.
