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Why the 2016 Election Proves America Needs the Electoral College

Let’s hear it for the electoral college! The main reason for giving smaller states proportionally greater representation than bigger states in the Electoral College is the same reason for giving each state two senators regardless of its size: to help ensure that the federal government would look out for the interests of all the people, not just the ones in the bigger states, as Jarrett Stepman explains: “The Electoral College system was designed to ensure that presidents would have to receive support from a diverse array of people around the country. Modern candidates have to accommodate farmers in rural states, factory workers in industrial states, and software engineers in tech-dominated states. The president must consider the needs and opinions of people across the country instead of just the views of a few, highly populated urban centers.”

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