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Politics, News & Issues > Politics, News & Issues (Other) Should the President be chosen by electoral vote or by popular vote?

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The Electoral College is to the body politic what the appendix is to the human body. In both cases no one knows what they do, until they cause trouble. The Electoral College, of course, figured prominently in the disputed election of 2000, where Al Gore won the popular vote, but George Bush prevailed when it came to the all-important electoral votes. That contest, needless to say, revealed deep fault lines in our election system, not the least of which is the anachronistic nature of the Electoral College. A woman once asked Benjamin Franklin what kind of government our nation would have. "...

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