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Radiolab just did an episode about it and Birch Bayh’s attempt to get rid of it. https://www.wnyc.org/widgets/ondemand_player/wnycstudios/#file=/audio/json/1478929/&share=1It's truly a credit to America civic mythmaking that we still think the electoral college is a good idea despite literally no other democracy using it today. I'm not sure I can even name any that used it for an extended period of time since the 1700s.
So why are we counting legal residents then?
And you wouldn't happen to be an originalist would you? Because boy do I have news for you on what the Founding Fathers intended when it came to calculating electoral votes and citizenship.
Yeah they do, they literally get to vote. Having a voice does not equate to getting what you want, regardless of being the minority.