The People's Choice: Electoral College

There is a lurking danger in the electoral college. This book demonstrates

an out of proportion event occuring when electors vote for someone other than

their pledged candidate, causing a constitutional catastrophe. I think having the

electoral college is a good idea but needs to be more regulated. I found some

discrepencies in the book pertaining to certain facts such as the date of the

electoral college vote as well as other events that were most likely exaggerated

to portray a more chaotic scene.


One of the less-known characters proposes a need to fix the system. With

this I think that Greenfield is acknowledging that reform of the electoral college

will most likely not occur. An analogy used is when one of the characters

describes a scene in which Charlie Chaplan(in one of his movies) keeps coming

closer to the edge of a cliff on skates...