Originalism – Adhering to the intent of (and sticking to what is written in) the Constitution On the other hand, if you are actually interested in the history of the Electoral College, and a legitimate discussion about why it should either be kept or eliminated, we can do that, and I suggest you read on. Just admit that you want to either keep the system as is or scrap it so that your party has an electoral advantage over the “enemy”, and we can stop seeing random posts and memes that are mostly nonsensical. Now, if your position is simply partisan, meaning you are currently a Democrat that wants to see it abolished because statistically speaking, there seems to be more Democratic voters in the country than Republican voters, or you are a Republican and you love the fact that in the past 19 years, we have had two Republican presidents elected while losing the national popular vote, I get it, but you need to simply admit those are your motives, and stop trying to justify your position with a bunch of made up crap either for or against the Electoral College. Put another way, I am stunned by the sheer amount of total nonsense I hear people spewing about this issue, and not just from the usual suspects you see posting on Facebook or Twitter, but even from the so-called experts you see on television or read in major newspapers that really should know better (and I suspect they do). I think it is safe to say that the primary reason for the outcry now is simply the divisiveness of the current President, but more interesting in my mind is the absolute lack of knowledge when it comes to the original purpose and intent of the Electoral College, as well as the wide ranging views on why it is either essential to our democracy or the biggest detriment to it that one can imagine. All of us remember the same outcome in 2000, with George Bush winning the election over Al Gore, though the popular vote margin was significantly smaller, but in reality, 2016 was the fifth time this has occurred in our history. Now, the 2016 election was not the first time we have wound up with a President who actually lost the popular vote. There has always been some opposition to the use of the Electoral College to select the President of the United States, but since 2016, an election in which Donald Trump lost the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes, yet won the Presidency via the Electoral College, the opposition has grown to a loud roar, albeit mainly from Democrats.
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