Make that 628 to go. A second Texas Elector has announced he cannot in good conscience vote for Trump.

As for the institution of the Electoral College, with ~70% of the U.S. population living within 50 miles of an ocean and most of that ~70% on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, the Electoral College and the Senate are the only mechanisms that give the rest of the nation any traction in our nation's governance.

A major factor in the success of this nation of great distances and sometimes wildly disparate cultures, customs, religions, and opinions are the provisions in the Constitution protecting the minority from the tyranny of the majority. I, for one, am stringently opposed to any change that might reduce those protections. A two legged stool, the Electoral College and the Senate, requires careful attention and determined intention to keep upright. Take away the Electoral College and the stool is almost guaranteed to fall with even the tiniest shove.


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