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...next step and simply elect the President by national popular vote? It seems logical enough, unless you think there is still something to this federalism business. We are, of course, a very different country than the one, riven by deep regional suspicions, that the Framers cobbled together in that Philadelphia summer. We are still not, however, one undifferentiated national mass. The consumers of California do not look on foreign trade in the same way Michigan's autoworkers do. People view guns in the suburbs of New Jersey very differently than they do in the towns of western Pennsylvania. The drive...
...then what? Instead of concentrating on the President-elect's appointments and agenda, we would see weeks of argument that he should not, in fact, be the new President. We would see the new Congress, whose first job is to certify or reject these votes, embroiled in furious partisan debate. We're talking about the de-legitimizing of the new President before he ever puts his hand on the Bible on Jan. 20. The spectacle of the most powerful country on earth enmeshed in a crisis-cum-farce would do us little good in world opinion--or in the financial...
These complications could push the choice back to a constitutional amendment to elect Presidents by popular vote alone. But by majority--or would a plurality be enough...
...discussed why the Electoral College made sense back in 1787 and whether it still makes sense today. I tried to convince her that if her schoolmates were setting up a system to elect a student president, they might give each class one vote so that the candidates would spend time appealing to all grade levels rather than just trying to rack up votes among friends their age. That didn't convince her, but she did agree that if those were the rules, then you should abide by them once the results were...
FRANCE Liberation: "America awoke Wednesday morning to discover it had no President-elect, and that the Nov. 7 vote was mired in a mixture of banana-republic travesty and suspense worthy of a World Cup final settled by penalty kicks...