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The Electoral College will never make everyone happy

  • Written by Mark Rush, Professor of Politics and Law and Director of Center for International Education, Washington and Lee University

With the presidential election looming, worried observers of politics have already asked whether the Electoral College will again deliver a victory to the candidate with less than a majority of the popular vote.

This has happened in two of the last five presidential elections.

Critics like Vox’s Ezra Klein contend that this phenomenon is not...

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