ALTHOUGH the United States prides itself as the world’s pre-eminent democracy, where each person can have their say about who should be president, the Constitution calls for states to choose “electors” who do the actual electing. This is known as the Electoral College. This Includes the first presidential election in 1789, won by George Washington, there […]

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