1.0Sightline Institutehttps://www.sightline.orgKristin Eberhardhttps://www.sightline.org/profile/kristineberhard/The Electoral College Trumped the People. Again. - Sightline Instituterich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="mwOfLR1LNE"><a href="https://www.sightline.org/2016/11/28/the-electoral-college-trumped-the-people-again/">The Electoral College Trumped the People. Again.</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.sightline.org/2016/11/28/the-electoral-college-trumped-the-people-again/embed/#?secret=mwOfLR1LNE" width="600" height="338" title="“The Electoral College Trumped the People. Again.” — Sightline Institute" data-secret="mwOfLR1LNE" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript">
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https://www.sightline.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/National-Popular-Vote-Interstate-Compact-support-by-state-with-Electoral-votes.-Graphic-by-Sightline-Institute.-Resize.png979868For the fifth time in US history, and for the second time in the past five presidential elections, the candidate who won the most votes lost the presidential election. The fault lies with the archaic Electoral College, an 18th-century compromise that still controls the elections of the 21st century’s most powerful country. But the notoriously […]