Letter: It’s time to retire the Electoral College

The functional compromise between agricultural and industrial, and later rural and metropolitan, states that is the Electoral College was highlighted in 2000 and 2016, when the popular vote and Electoral College chose different winners. In both cases, the losing candidates, losing parties and losing electors grudgingly accepted loss and formally expressed hope that winners would grow into their new positions of responsibility.But now in 2020, the rural contingent is formally unwilling to accept