Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College by Jesse Wegman

Author:Jesse Wegman [Wegman, Jesse]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 1250221978
Google: euJPxAEACAAJ
Amazon: B07XBCKLKQ
Publisher: All Points Books
Published: 2020-03-17T00:00:00+00:00

Strom Thurmond took advantage of this demographic fact and sent personal telegrams to prominent black and Jewish leaders in 1970, warning them of the consequences of supporting a direct popular vote. In a 2009 interview, Bayh recalled the ploy:

He told these groups, “What you’re going to do is, you’re going to give up your advantage to have influence to sway these large electoral votes if you have a direct popular vote. It will just be confined to one person, one vote. You won’t be able to sway that whole group of electors,” which is true, of course.

A couple of these guys … came to my office and said, “You’re going to have to back away from this.”

I said, “What do you mean?”

They said, “Well, it would give us less power.”

I finally said—the only time while I was there, in my eighteen years—I said, “Look, I busted my tail to see that each of you and your constituencies got one person, one vote. Now you’re telling me that if you have 1.01, you want to keep it? Get your rear ends out of my office and don’t come back.”40

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