and the original intent was the same as indirect election of senators: expressly to create a buffer between the voters and the result 2/
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If anything, the people arguing that the EC should throw the election to Hillary are closer to the original intent than the 2016 result 3/3
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the original intent was to let slave owners vote on behalf of their slaves. It is intended to privilege racism.
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I wonder if there's some value in privileging close states. It focuses the most on the major ideological and cultural divides
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it's an ok thing to wonder but at this point we're just retconning a completely random system.
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Isn't that basically the description of all social/ political change?
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