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Popular vote disagrees with this.





Popular vote disagrees with the temperature at which water boils.

No it doesn’t. Popular vote just thinks these are good qualities for their president. One of the failures of democracy is letting people vote themselves into an autocracy, and forgetting that democracy must not become the tyranny of a majority.

And apparently this is what Electoral College was supposed to prevent.

No, that's not true at all. The EC was to prevent the interests of more populous states from governing the less populous states.

That's what "tyranny of the majority" is, you're agreeing with them.

No. The EC was meant specifically to mitigate the tyranny of big states over small states, not to thwart a broad coalition of people across the states.



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