Justifying Nonsense

Rick Lyman has an article in this morning's New York Times about another scheme "in the history of the efforts to kill the Electoral College," through state governments automatically yielding their electoral votes to the winner of the nationwide popular vote.

How is this salient to the Revolutionary College Blog? Well,

A) Revolutionary College, Electoral College.
B) Both were founded around the same time (though they haven't gotten around to starting an unofficial blog yet).
C) C.V. Starr Fellow Birch Bayh gets a shout out.
D) Screw it -- it's Friday.

Actually, it offers up an interesting fact.

Robert Hardaway, a professor of law at the University of Denver who wrote “"The Electoral College and the Constitution: The Case for Preserving Federalism" (1994), has counted 704 efforts to change or abolish the Electoral College.

Seven hundred and four times. I may be lowballing here, but I think that's more times than Wile E. Coyote tried to kill the Road Runner.

So there you have it, folks: some more useless knowledge, courtesy of the Revolutionary College Blog.

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