Popular Vote Speculation Interlude

Chris, I don’t know about the national popular vote. I read somewhere years ago that the founding fathers purposely put the electoral college in our system as a fail safe against an uninformed electorate and in the 1800’s weren’t there a few elections that were determined by congress? At the rate that this country is going, are we still going to have an informed electorate that can elect a President on its own without being hypnotized by the inundation of campaigning by Super Pacs? The media is corporate owned, the Supreme Court finds this to be a good thing and politicians are forced to buy their committee positions which makes them professional fundraisers and nothing else. It is getting hard to not look at all this and not become cynical.
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