{"id":937169,"date":"2022-12-28T20:42:35","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T20:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=8d71459043ba7b4137d06dfe06beba55"},"modified":"2022-12-28T20:42:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T20:42:35","slug":"jamie-raskin-says-its-time-to-end-the-electoral-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/12\/28\/jamie-raskin-says-its-time-to-end-the-electoral-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Raskin Says It\u2019s Time to End the Electoral College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland) said lawmakers in Congress should begin the process of abolishing the Electoral College, describing the mechanism as a danger to the American people due to the plethora of ways it can be exploited. In comments on CBS&rsquo;s &ldquo;Face the Nation&rdquo; program, Raskin said that presidents should be elected by a popular vote model instead. &ldquo;We should elect the president...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/jamie-raskin-says-its-time-to-end-the-electoral-college\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/jamie-raskin-says-its-time-to-end-the-electoral-college\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We should elect the president the way we elect governors, senators, mayors, [and] representatives,&#8221; Raskin said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1460,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7461,49,50,786,55652,6205,4,52548],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=937169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":937170,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937169\/revisions\/937170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}