People want to believe in the EC as a wise council that will save us even though IRL we all know it's just a bunch of old guys w Trump hats
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You can't elect a body whose only purpose is to then elect someone else. All the electors become "pledged electors" almost immediately
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How can the electors thwart a demagogue when the only reason we elected those electors was bc they pledged to elect the demagogue
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I'd argue it fulfilled its function: it protected slave-owning states, & weights rural voters more. See: fight re 1920 census
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