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The Electoral College: Keep or Replace? A Soho Forum Debate

The Soho Forum Debates

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The National Popular Global Exacerbation

Larry Sabato: Is there any point at which the potential for abuses of a government elected by a popular majority is going to so abuse individual rights that you yourself would get alarmed? Sabato: I'm worried about both tyrannies. The election of the president is not what's producing, the changing of the way we elect the president would not produce that tyranny because it's the current system that is actually destructive. He says Republicans who are saying state legislatures have the power to ignore the vote of the people in their state and to pick another slate of electors could be wrong.

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