This Election Shows Why The Electoral College Is A Genius Idea
I & I Editorial Board
November 11, 2024
Every four years, various “experts” whine about the Electoral College, that seemingly bizarre feature of the Constitution whereby a handful of “electors” from each state get to choose the next president. This year proved why the Electoral College, which so many complain about but very few understand, was an incredible invention of our nation’s founders.
On election night, Chris Hayes, the insufferable MSNBC talking head, was one of the people spewing out the hackneyed complaint, saying “We have this very funky and terrible system called the Electoral College which decides elections in a way that is totally different than every other election in the United States, and the way that anything is decided anywhere else in the world. We should scrap it.”
The left has been trying mightily to undermine the Electoral College for decades. The latest gambit is the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, in which states that sign on agree to cast their electoral votes based on who won the national popular vote. If states representing 270 electoral votes were to sign the compact, our presidential elections would be decided by the popular vote. So far, they have 209 electoral votes.
Well, what’s wrong with that? Why have a system where someone can lose the popular vote and still be president, as Donald Trump did in 2016 and George W. Bush did in 2000?
Think about it for just a minute. If we didn’t have an Electoral College, we would still be waiting to learn who the next president is.
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