Jonah Goldberg: Scrapping the Electoral College is a bad idea
by Jonah Goldberg, Tribune Content Agency
Sep 16, 2020
3 minutes
Let’s squarely face an ugly possibility: President Trump could get elected a second time without winning the popular vote. Indeed, according to most experts, that’s the only way he could be reelected.
This would surely prompt another chorus of calls to scrap the Electoral College. I think that would be a mistake.
I say that even as I acknowledge that Trump has undermined the Electoral College’s legitimacy — not because he owes his election to
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