I've already confessed my bad attitude about the Electoral College system. And I've listed 10 of the potentially serious ways it can screw up our choice of national leaders. The trouble with such a list is that it implies that we have somehow been saddled with the worst system possible. It needs to be said that no system for choosing a national leader would be perfect (although I do believe that considering the anachronistic elements of our system, we could definitely do better).
All this system-bashing could also begin to imply that I have no respect or appreciation for the Framers. That's not so. Although I don't seem to have the normal allotment of reverence for the Constitution or its authors, I see them as very smart guys, many of them heroes of the War for Independence, who came to Philadelphia in the summer 1787 hoping to -- and trying hard to -- make things better.
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