Obama Calls Electoral College a ‘Vestige’ of an ‘Earlier Version’ of America

President Barack Obama criticized the Electoral College, calling it an outdated “vision” from America’s Founding Fathers. “The Electoral College is a vestige, it’s a carryover from an earlier vision of how our federal government was going to work that put a lot of premium on states,” President Obama said Friday during a press conference at the White House. -- More...