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oystertoadfish posted:i think in the constitutional convention they honestly expected presidential elections to be conducted almost purely on a 'favorite son' basis where someone with support in one or two states would rally the electors to his side, in which case actual political positions would be baked in, the electors being people who had known the candidate for years and been won over on the basis of regional/local politics, and the whole thing would really just be a power struggle among local elites. george mason thought 95% of elections would end up in the house of representatives, not decided by the electoral college, because back then they just couldn't imagine the whole country unifying behind two candidates. which happened within a decade Reminder that only 1.3% of the population voted in this election
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oystertoadfish posted:^^^^ i think i saw a wikipedia thing saying 0.88% lemme find a link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1792#Popular_vote footnote (b) here gives that number. which only strengthens your point That's for the 1792 election, but yes voter turnout was very low back then
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Feral_Shofixti posted:And literate.  
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