This thread proves that their is a misconception about why the Founders created the Electoral College in the first place; I haven't read all the posts but, at least into page 3 nobody has a clue.
The reason for the EC, according to Hamillton in Federalist 68 is to:
The process of election affords a moral certainty, that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications. Talents for low intrigue, and the little arts of popularity, may alone suffice to elevate a man to the first honors in a single State; but it will require other talents, and a different kind of merit, to establish him in the esteem and confidence of the whole Union, or of so considerable a portion of it as would be necessary to make him a successful candidate for the distinguished office of President of the United States.
In other words they didn't trust that the "general populous" could resist the the influence of a man with "
Talents for low intrigue, and the little arts of popularity, " and prevent such a man (Donald J. Trump) from becoming President. So they came to the compromise that the "general populous" (I'm going to call it
MOB would
the people of each State shall choose a number of persons as electors
that would, "presumbably" be above the influence of such a person of "low intrigue and arts of popularity" (Donald J. Trump).
Well, we saw how that's worked out.
The upshot is that the Founders didn't trust the "MOB", and in spite of getting so much right, they got that wrong. The founders did not trust "the mob" with the sole authority to choose the "Chief Magistrate", but modern science has proven they should have had more confidence in
We The People. Individuals in a mob rarely make the right choice, BUT when averaged together
"the mob's" choice zeroes in on the correct choice. That's been proven in many studies, many ways; the simplest example is when a large number of people are asked to guess the number of Jelly-Beans in a jar their guesses vary wildly, but, when averaged together the average of their choices is (almost invariably) very close to correct. Before you get hung up on that simple example or Jelly-Beans read up on it, it's quite amazing.
Anyway, I believe in
We The People, the Whole American Experiment proves that, as bad as it is, OUR Constitution beats hell out of the next best thing ... EVER ... in the history of the world! IF the Constitution has failings, and the Founders knew it did - hence the provision for Amendments, the one big one is
they, the Founders didn't put quite enough faith in WE THE PEOPLE.
The EC has failed in it's duty and science has proven the
PEOPLE are quite capable of making the right choice. AND, in acuality, States would be better reprsented by a popular vote:
The Electoral College doesn't benefit small states. What it does is even dumber.
The Electoral College doesn't benefit small states. What it does is even dumber.
