When the Left Defended the Electoral College
Fred Lucas June 06, 2019
Joe Biden in a portrait taken Dec. 13, 1978, the month after the Delaware Democrat was re-elected to the Senate for the first time and about 30 years before he was elected vice president. The next year, Biden was among Senate liberals defending the Electoral College in debate over a constitutional amendment to elect presidents and vice presidents by popular vote. (Photo: Getty Images)
New York today is part of the movement to choose presidents by popular vote, but 40 years ago a nationally known liberal from the state took to the Senate floor to argue the advantages of the current system.
The Electoral College, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan asserted in his July 1979 speech, forces consensus and allows a president to “govern with the legitimacy that has come of attaining to such diverse majorities.â€
The New York Democrat, who died in 2003, had lots of liberal company at the time.
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