Share: A couple of weeks back, MSNBC’s Chris Hayes went on a bit of a tirade on his show “All in with Chris Hayes”, denouncing the electoral college in all its unfair, undemocratic glory. Hayes said that in the past seven elections, the Republican party only acquired the popular vote on a single occasion — during former president George W. Bush’s re-election in 2004 — and yet due to the electoral college the Republican party managed to secure three presidential wins out of those seven. …
OP-ED: The popular vote should trump the Electoral College
It’s been just over a week since the presidential election and once again, the question about whether or not the United States should keep the Electoral College has come up yet again. The Electoral College should be abolished and the majority vote should determine who the president is, no matter what his or her political party affiliation is.