The problem with the Electoral College is not partisanship or urban-rural polarization
At least, not directly. The system itself creates many different opportunities for mismatches between the will of the people and the will of electors
This paper — which builds a series of mathematical models to analyze the probability of mismatches between the popular vote and Electoral College since the 1820s — recently showed up on the front pag…
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