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- tommyo0
TBO,
How do you feel about the electoral college then? Seems like Alexander Hamiltons argument is that ultimately chosen people who are more educated about the candidates are deemed more fit to choose the president? The funny thing about both Jeffersons argument as well as an issue peppered throughout Hamiltons Federalist Paper is that they agreed that a corruption of power, innate in mankind, was a concern. Not surprisingly I completely agree with Jefferson.
Seems like the electoral college, while I hardly ever hear anyone gripe about the outcome of an election because of that system, kind of circumvents what is now a pretty well educated population. Is it obsolete? Just kind of seems like a system that creates apathy among the people. What say you mister poly-sci?