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Elizabeth Warren Says She’ll Abolish Electoral College ‘Before Her Second Term’

When the delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention were deciding how to elect the president of the United States, they settled on a solution: the Electoral College.

Under the College, a temporary group of “electors” equal to the total number of representatives in Congress is created, with each state getting the same number of electoral votes as they have members of Congress. Most states have systems in which the candidate who gets the most votes wins all the state’s electoral votes. In modern times, whoever gets to 270 of the 538 total electoral votes wins the White House.

But Sen. Elizabeth Warren thinks she knows better than the Founding Fathers.

Read the full story from The Gateway Pundit


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