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this is right. as madison and a few others imagined it, electors would winnow the field of candidates for president to a manageable number, none of whom would get a majority. the election would then be decided in the house. https://t.co/DVM1Oq53OW — PolitiTweet.org

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@jbouie My understanding is that Madison genuinely believed that most presidential elections would be settled in th… https://t.co/sBYbGVCB4x

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and of course, the "electoral college" that we use isn't really in the constitution at all, it is a contingent development of partisan politics in the 1820s and 1830s — PolitiTweet.org

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the interesting thing is that we do have institutions which perform the function of fielding a single candidate for national office out of a large, diverse country: political parties. — PolitiTweet.org

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