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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
The electoral college was no created to prevent an unqualified person from becoming president, it was designed to remove direct control from the electorate.
It was designed to restrict power of the most populous states and increase power of the least populous
We may not like how it is working, but I think it IS working.
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This quote is from History Central.com; I'm not familiar with the website's reputation but I can certainly find other sources with the same message.
"Hamilton and the other founders believed that the electors would be able to insure that only a qualified person becomes President. They believed that with the Electoral College no one would be able to manipulate the citizenry. It would act as check on an electorate that might be duped. Hamilton and the other founders did not trust the population to make the right choice. The founders also believed that the Electoral College had the advantage of being a group that met only once and thus could not be manipulated over time by foreign governments or others."