Originally Posted by NW Ponderer
Originally Posted by Senator Hatrack
This is a quote you posted NW.
"The original purpose of the Electoral College was to reconcile differing state and federal interests, provide a degree of popular participation in the election, give the less populous states some additional leverage in the process by providing “senatorial” electors, preserve the presidency as independent of Congress and generally insulate the election process from political manipulation."
I put in italics the part of your quote that supports what I said about the balance between large and small states.
And ignored the most important things: The list of primary purposes, and the specific limitation of the statement that it was "to a degree" - talk about "out of context". Pot, meet kettle.
By bracketing the phrase about a degree of popular participation with commas means it is an idea that can stand alone from the rest of what is being said (", provide a degree of popular participation in the election,). Then in a comment before you posted this comment I referred to the Electoral College as the Presidential election version of it being like the Senate. The quote you posted also refers to the Electoral College as being senatorial in regards to a Presidential election. Who ignored the most important things in the quote you posted NW? You did.

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