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A college education

机译:大专以上学历

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The natural response to any election crisis is to find a scapegoat to kick. The obvious scapegoat for America's current mess, it seems, is a 200-year-old institution designed (at least in part) to give a political edge to slave owners: the electoral college. Americans do not vote directly for their presidents. They vote to decide who wins their state's electoral-college votes. The number of these votes is fixed by the number of people the state sends to Congress. Critics argue that this system stands an unacceptable chance of producing a president who lost the popular vote. Two of the front-runners for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004, Hillary Clinton and Gray Davis, the governor of California, have already called for the college's abolition. Other worthies describe it as "a dinosaur that should be retired to a museum", "an appendage to an anachronism", and "a train wreck waiting to happen".
机译:对任何选举危机的自然反应是找到替罪羊。看来,美国当前的混乱局面显然是替罪羊,它是一家已有200年历史的机构,其设计(至少部分地)旨在赋予奴隶主政治上的优势:选举学院。美国人不直接为总统投票。他们投票决定谁赢得本州选举学院的选票。这些选票的数目由州派遣给国会的人数决定。批评者认为,这种制度产生失去大众投票的总统是不可接受的机会。希拉里·克林顿(Hillary Clinton)和加利福尼亚州州长格雷·戴维斯(Gary Davis)是2004年民主党总统候选人提名的两名领跑者,已经呼吁取消该学院。其他有价值的人将其描述为“应该退回到博物馆的恐龙”,“过时的附属物”和“等待发生的火车残骸”。

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