From Schwarzenegger, a Veto for Voters' Good

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Author(s) George F. Will
Source The Washington Post
Date October 12, 2006
URL http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/11/AR2006101101597.html
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Quotes-start.png "The system aims not just for majority rule but rule by certain kinds of majorities . It encourages candidates to form coalitions of states with various political interests and cultures. Such coalitions can be assembled only by a politics of accommodation. So the electoral college system discourages attempts to build narrow ideological or geographical majorities." Quotes-end.png

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