jesse wegman, welcome to back to democracy now! please explain.lain the roots of the electoral college and what this movement is all about. >> sure. well, the framers really had no idea what they were doing when it established how to pick a president. they set themselves it was the hardest issue they had to decide. they thought about it the entire summer of 1787. at the very end, they basically through together this jerryrigged system we now call the electoral college in a side room of the convention hall really just to get it done and out for ratification. they did not care too much about how it operated because they knew george washington was going to be the first president. the stakes did not see that hi to them. the system they thought they were designing basically fell apart in the first 10 years. is model we think we know there's this body of deliberate thoughtful educated wisemen who will make the choice for the people about who should leave the country. within 10 years, it had completely stopped to being like that with the rise of the nati