Electoral College Reform Quotes

President James Buchanan's margin of victory in the election was fifty thousand dollars.

Time and again a close election leads to hand-wringing about the need for Electoral College reform; time and again, politicians and parties respond to the college's incentives, and more capacious and unifying majorities are born.

If the Democrats want to make an efficacy or merit-based argument with respect to the Electoral College, then by all means make it. It ought to be based in history and fact not fanciful revisionist history, and it should be made not just during an election year because of discontent with the electoral outcome.

We’re the only country in the world where somebody can come in second and still be President because of the Electoral College.

Since 2000, I have proposed changing the Constitution so that our popular vote decides the presidency.

If the popular vote elected the president today, two states - California and New York - would be all you would need. And that means campaigns would occur only there and campaigns would focus only on issues relevant to those people in those states.

The Electoral College is the ink blot on the Constitution

Most people don't understand the Electoral College; they don't know why it exists.

The electoral college system turned out, contrary to the words of the Founding Fathers, to be a historical blunder, a real blunder.

After immersing myself in the mysteries of the Electoral College for a novel I wrote in the '90s, I came away believing that the case for scrapping it is less obvious than I originally thought.

No one likes the Electoral College, expect perhaps those who were elected because of it. No one likes gerrymandering, except those doing the gerrymandering. No one likes the filibuster, except those doing the filibustering.

The South will have to protect herself in the electoral college.

Now that Donald Trump has won the presidency despite losing the popular vote, there's a growing cry to rethink, or even abolish, the electoral college. This would be a mistake.

While imperfect, the electoral college has generally served the republic well. It forces candidates to campaign in a variety of closely contested races, where political debate is typically robust.

I cannot recall a single case where a Vice President contributed one electoral vote in a Presidential election.