We Need to Kill the Electoral College - The Nation

[JayhawkSD]

9. Interesting, but uninformative links

Your first link provides impressive credentials but says nothing about the Electoral College.

Your second link provides a citation from a different "scholar" with a link which does not load, saying of James Madison that, "His proposition for the Electoral College included the “three-fifths compromise,” where black people could be counted as three-fifths of a person, instead of a whole."

Some scholar. It did nothing of the sort. The "three fifths compromise" was arrived at during negotiations regarding the constitution itself, and it involved representation in the House of Representatives and matters of taxation.

The determination of the Electoral College merely accepted that it would consist of the total number of members in Congress, House plus Senate. The man is twisting history in order to suit his argument, which no true scholar would do.

Your third link loads a pdf file that provides a title only with no body or text.

All in all, hardly a very cogent rebuttal.