If we really thought the Electoral College was the best way to choose a president, we wouldn’t have tried to reform or abolish it more than 700 times. We wouldn’t have expressed a consistent and overwhelming support for the popular vote, as has been the case since polling on the question began in the 1940s. Democrats wouldn’t have fought to convince electors to choose the popular vote winner in 2016, and Republicans wouldn’t have planned to do the same in 2000. And Donald Trump wouldn’t have tweeted, as he did on Election Night 2012, when for a moment it looked like his candidate, Mitt Romney,
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