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THREE CHEERS FOR THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE.(Brief Article)
The uproar over votes in Florida had one good effect: After this election, the Electoral College never looked better.
Think what the election would have been like without the Electoral College. The raucous scenes in Florida would have broken out in half the states in America. And every close election would paralyze the country for the weeks it takes to tally absentee votes, dispute ballot designs, and on and on.
In 1960, liberal historian Theodore White observed that JFK's victory was "so thin as to be, in all reality, nonexistent." Yet thanks to the Electoral College--and Richard Nixon's statesmanly behavior--Americans weren't divided. Similarly, Bill Clinton received less than half the popular vote both times he ran. In 1860, Lincoln won a mere 40 percent of the popular vote. Yet in all these cases the Electoral College rendered clear victories.
The Electoral College has many continuing benefits. By making each state a distinct prize it causes American campaigning to be waged at a much more local level. It creates a grassroots, human-scale politics, where candidates must show up at ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, THREE CHEERS FOR THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE.(Brief Article)