I Hope This Is Not Another Lie About the Republican Party But it might be lost forever.

[ElNono]

A changed deadline?

I had not, thanks!

https://www.wxxinews.org/post/when-d...-mixed-signals
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/us/trump-census.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local...2ab_story.html

[Winehole23]

https://www.wxxinews.org/post/when-d...-mixed-signals
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/us/trump-census.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local...2ab_story.html

Thanks for including a local news link, paywalls are a b-word!

(never ever paying for an NYT or WaPo subscription is my delight)

[ElNono]

Thanks for including a local news link, paywalls are a b-word!

(never ever paying for an NYT or WaPo subscription is my delight)

Mine too... IIRC, the original article was on NPR, but too lazy to look for it.

[spurraider21]

Eh, dunno about "original intent." Indirect elections reliably lead to minority rule, if the founders wanted to prevent that, they could easily have provided for direct Presidential elections.

The Electoral College is the epitome of stogy republican elitism; its raison d'etre is to make minority rule possible.

the people voting wasn't even a given. the states decided how their electors would be allocated, and not every state had a popular vote, initially.