Should the Electoral College Be Abolished?

Electoral College Sues To Take Down Trump

Akhil Reed Amar and Charles Fried.

Updated December 13, 2016, 3:20 AM

Hillary Clintons growing lead over Donald J. Trump is now over 1 million votes, making this the second time a president has been elected without a popular majority since 2000. That year, Akhil Reed Amar wrote in an op-ed for The New York Times that the electoral college should be abolished, and Charles Fried disagreed. Here they are again.

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