By The FirstCongressman Jamie Raskin called for the elimination or reform of the Electoral College during an interview with CBS News this weekend; labeling America’s process for selecting a president a “danger to democracy and the American people.”
“The Electoral College now – which has given us five popular-vote losers as president in our history, twice in this century alone – has become a danger, not just to democracy, but to the American people,” Rep. Jamie Raskin said.
“But it’s not remotely sufficient,” he said. “We spend hundreds of millions of dollars every year exporting American democracy to other countries, and the one thing they never come back to us with is the idea that, ‘Oh, that Electoral College thing you have, that’s so great, we think we’ll adopt that too.’”
