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Democracy and the Electoral College: Three YouTube Shorts


How should our leaders be elected? America is often referred to as a democracy. In a pure democracy, one person should get one vote. Yet the Framers of the U.S. Constitution set up a system where our president isn’t elected that way: the Electoral College. To many on the left, this was a mistake, particularly after the elections of George W. Bush and Donald Trump, who lost the popular vote but won the Electoral College. But as the Framers knew well, pure democracy has its faults. The Founders worried that pure democracy could potentially infringe on the rights of the minority, in part from ancient history and in part because they saw this in their own time. They designed the Electoral College to mitigate some of the faults of pure democracy.