Letters

摘要

Sir- You were right to characterise Republican efforts to alter the Electoral College as having "a whiff of desperation" ("Moving the goalposts", February 9th). In fact, both parties are trying to change the system for electing the American president: the Republicans by taking account of the candidates' tallies in congressional districts (as Maine and Nebraska currently do) and the Democrats by eliminating the Electoral College altogether and replacing it with election by the popular vote. Both parties are wrong. The progressive position is to retain the Electoral College.