The Electoral College Made It Possible For Us To Abolish Slavery

[Ptarmigan]

The Electoral College Made It Possible For Us To Abolish Slavery
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2016/12/28/the-electoral-college-made-it-possible-for-us-to-abolish-slavery-n2264345

The Electoral College is a racist system that helped slave states, and that’s why it should be abolished. That’s one of the many talking points the Left has hurled against our electoral process. In all, it’s just the typical antics of a sore loser. The Electoral College has to go because Hillary Clinton lost and California gave her more popular votes (no kidding since it’s a left wing cesspool). Even The New York Times says the Electoral College has to go because it’s racist (with the three-fifths compromise bit), and because Clinton got more popular votes (though she didn’t win the majority). Once again, the Left shows they have no sense of history, despite being obsessed with being on the right side of it.

The left says the Electoral College is a way to prevent a slave revolt and keep slavery alive.

Not so. It did not preserve slavery. It brought an end to slavery.

[SVPete]

The Framers envisioned a system were multiple (= more than 2) popular candidates gaining significant numbers of votes, with the EC electing the President (and the House choosing the President if the EC was deadlocked). Thus, the anti-slave Lincoln being elected President because D Party votes were divided between two candidates was not exceptional. It was what the Framer of the Constitution expected. What Lincoln would have done had the southern states not seceded is probably not guessable.