Them Hartmann: Maine just took America one giant step closer to ending the GOP's grip on our elections

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2. Interesting solution to this ancient travesty.

Still, the fact that a state has the power to do this, ignore and counter the will of that state's voters, exposes the whole fallacy of the electoral college. The electoral college selects the executive, despite what the majority of voters select at the polls. It has done so twice this century alone to the detriment to the nation and the world.

The tyranny of a governing authority countermanding the democratically expressed will of its citizens is the beating black heart of despotism. Why is this long-standing federal embarrassment only now being addressed by citizens of good will? Because, this spawn of non-democracy has birthed its misbegotten children before our very eyes. We plainly see the resultant disasters in the legacies of Bush and Trump. Only blind fools or criminal minds would not.