How big of a vote gap would it take for you to drop the Electoral College?

[BmorePat87]

The original system had state legislatures choosing educated electors to pick the President, each casting two votes with the 1st place winner being President and the 2nd place winner being VP.

State legislatures could decide how those electors were picked (either through an election or they would pick them). If a state had an election, you voted for electors who you knew supported someone you liked, not directly for the candidate.

I have to assume anyone who is a stickler to keeping the EC because it's the system the founding fathers developed want us to have the system in its purest form.


I think that as we attempt to throw out fake reasons for why the founding fathers created this system, we should at least be aware of the actual system they put on paper in the late 1780's.