this is evelyn out of shrewsberry, pennsylvania, republican, good morning. caller: good morning. i would like to explain the electrical college. and the election was rigged. there should be the whole united states, one system, no male inns . host: do you want to talk about the electoral college? guest: it was a compromise at the constitutional convention and originally intended to be a real college with electors that would select a president. times a less democratic unless sense that the presidency is important new cannot just have a referendum among the people who these candidates are it's a different day and age. that ended pretty quickly. we had a party system and the electoral college became somewhat similar to what it has remained for 200 years which is basically the way in which the votes get collected state-by-state and then ratified in the notion that electors would exercise discretion or make a selection ended quickly and other things were changed. 1877, after the 1876 elisha -- election, the most contentious until 2000 they change the federal law which regulated the tim