Let the Folks Choose the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral School

“Wegman combines in-depth historic evaluation and perception into up to date politics to current a cogent argument that the Electoral School violates America’s ‘core democratic ideas’ and must be achieved away with…” ―Publishers Weekly

The framers of the Structure battled over it. Lawmakers have tried to amend or abolish it greater than 700 instances. To at the present time, thousands and thousands of voters, and even members of Congress, misunderstand the way it works. It deepens our nationwide divide and distorts the core democratic ideas of political equality and majority rule. How can we tolerate the Electoral School when each vote doesn’t depend the identical, and the candidate who will get probably the most votes can lose?

Twice within the final 5 elections, the Electoral School has overridden {the popular} vote, calling the integrity of your entire system into query―and making a false image of a rustic divided into vivid purple and blue blocks when in actual fact we’re purple from coast to coast. Even when the popular-vote winner turns into president, tens of thousands and thousands of Individuals―Republicans and Democrats alike―discover that their votes did not matter. And, with statewide winner-take-all guidelines, solely a handful of battleground states in the end determine who will develop into president.

Now, as political passions attain a boiling level on the daybreak of the 2020 race, the message from the American folks is evident: The best way we vote for the one official whose job it’s to signify all Individuals is neither honest nor simply. Main reform is required―now. Is not it time to let the folks choose the president?

On this completely researched and interesting name to arms, Supreme Courtroom journalist and New York Occasions editorial board member Jesse Wegman attracts upon the historical past of the founding period, in addition to info gleaned from marketing campaign managers, area administrators, and different officers from twenty-first-century Democratic and Republican presidential campaigns, to make a robust case for abolishing the antiquated and antidemocratic Electoral School. In Let the Folks Choose the President he exhibits how we will in the end make each vote in the US depend―and restore perception in our democratic system.