Eddie Glaude Jr.: We Need to Get Rid of Electoral College Finally Once and for All

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GLAUDE JR.: "You’re absolutely right, Joe. How do we say back home in the South, it would be in the bat of an eye that they would have done it. So I think it’s important for us to understand the origin of the Electoral College, too. You know, Madison, who is the genius behind our system, also understood that in terms of apportionment, in terms of counting influence in states that Southern slave-holding states were at a disadvantage because 'black folk' couldn’t vote. So there was a way in which the Electoral College could balance it out, because if we didn’t have the Electoral College the South would be at a complete disadvantage with regards to the North because black folk couldn’t vote in that time. So the Electoral College is rooted in, in some interesting sort of way, the original sin of the country. And it seems to me, Joe, that if we’re going to get beyond this, we need to understand that and perhaps take seriously the idea of getting rid of it finally, once and for all."