The Electoral College or How to Lose While Winning

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Political ideology or political votes in 2016 as mapped and weighted by Mark Newman/University of Michigan

I’ve written on the Electoral College before. In fact because the article I wrote didn’t seem to get a stable url I’m probably just going to republish it here at some point. So if you see a weirdly anachronistic explanation of the Electoral College from me in the next few weeks or days that’s what that is. But the reason I wrote that piece is that right after the 2016 election people were googling things like “Electoral College location.”

You thought I was kidding didn’t you? Seriously guys, this is why mummy drinks.

I’m not going to get super into it today, because you can just see my stupid article from before in a few days time when I deign to republish it, but I do want to cover a few gross points. And by “gross” I mean “overall” rather than “disgusting,” although to be honest … I do also mean “disgusting.”

First thing’s first, the point of the Electoral College was not — as it is often misattributed — to keep the stupid populace from selecting the wrong person. And frankly, with this, the proof is in the pudding. Or pudding-face. The Electoral College is why we have Donald Trump. I think at this point Hamilton is happy he got shot by Burr. Either that or he has no consciousness or…