(03-21-2019, 10:35 AM)homebiscuit Wrote: Regardless of argument, it can be agreed the electoral college in this last election prevented the federal government from becoming incorrigibly corrupted.

No.  Both candidates were incorrigibly corrupt.
The electoral college could have stopped this if enough electors turned in ballots with the names of actual decent people on them.  It would have gone to the House and hopefully whomever the third candidate was would have won.
The real failure was in the two nominating processes though.
The Democrats decided to make theirs a private coronation and the Republicans allowed Trump to get all 99 of Florida's delegates even though most of the Republicans in Florida had picked a different candidate.
But that's getting off topic.

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