You really would have been in your element in the pre-federation Americana days.
Can you explain to me how, as I may well be missing a fundamental part of the concept, the Electoral College system is proportional representation when the 'winner takes all' element can mitigate the effect of the majority vote and the number of Electors is not proportional to the State/County vote proportions
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The reason that the Constitution calls for this extra layer, rather than just providing for the direct election of the president, is that most of the nation’s founders were actually rather afraid of democracy.'
Much of this system is about as relevant to today's society as the Second Amendment.