Five Common Misconceptions About the Electoral College

[Midnightwalk]

5. The majority tyranny argument is bs

Asserting that 51% shouldn’t be able to boss around 49% but ignoring that 49% is bossing around 51% is intellectually dishonest.

I think the percentages are worse than that and will get worse. The divide in the country is urban rural not regional.

If the major divide in the country was regional then someone might put together an argument for how a regional system protects minority rights. The senate is set up that way but I don’t agree that works well now and maybe never did.

The presidency is a single office so it is inherently winner take all. The electoral college doesn’t protect minority rights, it gives us the tyranny of the minority.