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So the author doesn't bother to even attempt to list a single benefit of the electoral college? Could at least have given a minimal shred of effort to have a we

• Terr_ 3y ago
  > So the author doesn't bother to even attempt to list a single benefit of the electoral college? Yet you won't bother to even attempt to list any either? That seems a little unfair. Me, I once thought the Electoral College offered a minor benefit, the idea that its ranks of delegates were a protective fuse against disaster, where all those éminence grise types would have a principled revolt and block some flagrantly unqualified demagogue from seizing the levers of power. However that was before the live-testing of 2016, where the "feature" singularly failed to operate.