Electorial_College

Electorial College Should the Electoral College be abolishd' Viewpoint: Yes The Velvet Coup Daniel Lazare begins his article by stating that Hillary Clinton and Ronald Dworkin, New York University law professor, feel that the Electoral College should be eliminated. He states that “rather than guaranteeing democratic liberties, the ancient constitution denies them.” The article goes on to include an excerpt from a speech made by former Vice President, Al Gore. In one section of the speech Gore says “we want a democracy that does not give some states greater clout in presidential elections and other states less clout merely because something called the Electoral College says that’s the way it ought to be.” The article continues to display more of Al Gores’ speech. Later in his speech he offers a proposal to his opponent. “Regardless of the outcome in the Electoral College, I propose we both promise to abide by the popular vote and only by the popular vote.” The author of the article feels that if Gore was to take such a step there would be many issues to deal with. Lazare poses the question “if Al Gore was to take such a step, what would electoral, college, vote, feel, should, gore, says, posner, article, viewpoint, states, speech, people, leaders, way, take, president, popular, nation, lazare, count, choose, america, al, abolishd, yes, votes, undemocratic, two, step, stating, something, richard, regardless, recount