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Comment by Simon_ORourke

> There are also a lot of good philosophical and practical arguments to giving a majority power.

I'm not sure if the Founding Fathers didn't create the whole electoral college explicitly to prevent this simple rule of the majority, from being a thing? After all "we" know better than "them" - with "we" being whatever group thinks they're morally superior/better/richer/more religously righteous etc. etc.

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