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ulTRAX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 11:56 PM
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22. oops.... bad ulTRAX... I mispoke

I meant that 11% of our PRESIDENTS were installed by the EC after losing the popular plurality vote...

That being said I have NOT looked at how many Presidents were installed with less than a majority of the popular vote as Clinton (1992) was.

Either way... the EC is an anti-democratic feature of the Constitution that can impose upon the nation a President who did NOT win a clear majority of the popular vote.

How is that defensible in a nation that is supposed be value self-government?
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