Many people would like to see the electoral college done away with. Jonah Goldberg disagrees.
The ABA said the electoral college system was "ambiguous," "complex" and "dangerous." It's not complex. Each state decides democratically who it wants to be president, the winner gets that state's electoral votes, which are allotted proportionally based on population. Whoever wins the majority of electoral votes wins. If you think that's too complex to grasp, I'm not sure you're qualified to vote in the first place. It's not ambiguous either. Indeed, one of its chief benefits is that historically it has given an unambiguous victory in electoral votes to candidates who receive only a fraction of the popular vote.
In addition, people who have looked into the math have found that in most elections, the electoral college increases the power of every citizen's vote. Each vote becomes more likely to make a difference in the final total, and in deciding the winner.
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