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Source: The Washington Post
Roundup
11-12-16

Sorry, Lady Gaga. We’re not reforming the electoral college any time soon.

by Julian Zelizer
Julian Zelizer is a political historian at Princeton University and a fellow at the New America Foundation. He is the author of "The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society."  Follow @julianzelizer

The elector is to the body politic what the appendix is to the human body….


The elector, in fact, is merely a symptom of what the American Bar Association’s Special Commission on Electoral Reform aptly described as our “archaic, undemocratic, complex, ambiguous, indirect, and dangerous” method of electing a President. ...

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