Electoral College not about Democracy, but about Power

Electoral College not about Democracy, but about Power

Hillary Clinton blames the FBI for her losing the election. She thinks it’s because the FBI reopened the investigation into her emails. Also everyone was stunned by Trump’s big win in the election. Nobody thought that he was going to win. Now all the sore losers of the 2016 election are getting angry at the Constitution. these liberal officials have a point. The Electoral College is not democratic, if by democratic they mean rule by simple majority. But the Electoral College’s exaggeration of the power of the states is not some bizarre mistake or a constitutional version of the appendix. The very existence of the Senate, where the Constitution allocates two Senators to each state, runs directly counter to the idea of popular representation. And yet the Constitution requires the agreement of the Senate, where the majority of the people have no voice, to most of our most important decisions. In most of our democratic allies, such as Great Britain, Germany, and Japan, the majority party in the legislature selects a prime minister, who becomes head of the executive branch as well.