This PERFECTLY Illustrates How INSANE The Electoral College Concept Is!

[eniwetok]

40. the EC was to magnify the power of white in slave states...

We've been brought up to believe all sorts of nonsense about the purpose of the EC. The federalist papers spew some crap about preventing a demagouge from becoming president. Ya, that worked like a charm. The EC INSTALLED a demagouge. But the federalist papers were designed to sell ratification. It's only when we dig into the minutes of the so-called Constitutional Convention do we get closer to the truth...

Madison on July 19th, 1787. Madison is for the popular vote but....

The people at large was in his opinion the fittest in itself. It would be as likely as any that could be devised to produce an Executive Magistrate of distinguished Character. The people generally could only know & vote for some Citizen whose merits had rendered him an object of general attention & esteem. There was one difficulty however of a serious nature attending an immediate choice by the people. The right of suffrage was much more diffusive in the Northern than the Southern States; and the latter could have no influence in the election on the score of the Negroes. The substitution of electors obviated this difficulty and seemed on the whole to be liable to fewest objections.