No special expertise in politics is needed nowadays to recognize that the nation's 168-year-old electoral process is an anachronism, and a potentially dangerous one. Last week, the President declared that its reform "should be given the earliest attention by the Congress."
As it turned out, however, the President's demands were considerably less drastic than his campaign oratory had suggested. Instead of saying, as he had in October, that "the candidate who wins the most popular votes should be President," Nixon now declares: "Practicality demands recognition that the electoral system is deeply rooted in American history and federalism."
Glaring Weaknesses. What the...
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