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Alexandra Petri: Does the Electoral College spark joy?

Take up the Electoral College from your closet. Lay it in a pile. Stare at it. I think you want to keep it. After all, consider:

• If the Electoral College is abolished, people would be forced to stop ignoring Massachusetts during campaign season, and it would be awkward after all those years of pretending not to see it, during which Massachusetts started to build a life and identity of its own that didn’t revolve around the attention of presidential candidates.

• The Electoral College is very old, and why would you want to get rid of something very old, even if it did not spark joy?