John -- former deputy assistant attorney general and office of the legal counsel, doj, and law professor at the university of california at berkeley. what's the truth about the electoral college's origins and purpose? is this a racist vestige thateg needs to be done away with? ur i hate to say it, laura, i think once again progressives are showing that their main object is just to tear down dinstitution that is get in the way of just simple democracy. if the electoral college is racist, then the whole constitution is racist, because the constitution contains lots of devices that slow down demo...