Eric Holder Calls for Electoral College To Be Abolished: ‘It’s a Defect in Our Democracy’

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HOLDER: “I will stick with this issue but I will also say I think we ought to do away with the electoral college. We have a system now that was — it’s a defect in our democracy. We have had in the last five elections two presidents who were not — did not win the popular vote. The presidency is the one office in this country that represents all of the people. You have a district representative, congressman, you have a person who represents your state or two people represent your state, you have senators and you vote for them in a direct way. Seems to me we ought to have a direct election of the president of the United States. If we did that, you would have Republicans who would be campaigning in California. The Republican would campaign in New York. Democrat would campaign in Texas. That means in some swing states, smaller states, would not get as much attention as they do now but I think the vast majority of people in this country would get a great deal more attention, attention that they deserve. But I don’t want that to take away from the focus as the Governor says, on the problem of gerrymandering. That is what I have devoted most of my post-government life towards, eliminating this whole problem of gerrymandering.”

(h/t NTK Network)