{"id":125,"date":"2020-12-28T18:14:07","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T18:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/electoralcollegeinfo\/?page_id=125"},"modified":"2022-09-15T17:54:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T17:54:57","slug":"people-for-and-against-ec","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/electoralcollegeinfo\/people-for-and-against-ec\/","title":{"rendered":"People for and Against the Electoral College"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Support for the Electoral College has decreased among the general public since the 2020 presidential election. A June-July 2022 survey by Pew Research Center found that 63% of Americans want the the winner of the popular vote nationwide to win the presidency, while 35% support keeping the Electoral College. A previous poll from January 2021 showed that 55% of Americans wanted the method of electing the president to change, while 43% favored the existing system.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_125_1('footnote_plugin_reference_125_1_1');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_125_1('footnote_plugin_reference_125_1_1');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_125_1_1\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[1]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_125_1_1\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Rebecca Salzer and Jocelyn Kiley, &#8220;Majority of Americans Continue to Favor Moving Away from Electoral College,&#8221; pewresearch.org, August 5, 2022<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_125_1_1').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_125_1_1', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [-7, 0], });<\/script><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below are ten quotes in favor of keeping the Electoral College, and ten quotes against maintaining this method of electing the President of the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table centerheader\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th>A.<br>In Favor of the Electoral College<\/th><th>B.<br>Against the Electoral College<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>1.<strong> Donald Trump<\/strong>, 45th President of the United States: <br><br><p><strong>\u201cThe brilliance of the Electoral College is that you must go to many States to win. With the Popular Vote, you go to just the large States &#8211; the Cities would end up running the Country. Smaller States &amp; the entire Midwest would end up losing all power &#8211; &amp; we can\u2019t let that happen. I used to like the idea of the Popular Vote, but now realize the Electoral College is far better for the U.S.A.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><br><p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Source: Twitter.com, Mar. 19, 2019<\/span><\/p> <p>[<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Note:<\/strong><\/span><em> Donald Trump had previously spoken against the EC. On Nov. 6, 2012, he tweeted, \u201cThe electoral college is a disaster for a democracy.\u201d<\/em>]<\/p><\/td><td>1. <strong>Hillary Clinton<\/strong>, former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic nominee for President: <br><br><p><strong>&#8220;We are a very different country than we were 200 years ago. I believe strongly that in a democracy, we should respect the will of the people and to me, that means it&#8217;s time to do away with the Electoral College and move to the popular election of our president. I hope no one is ever in doubt again about whether their vote counts.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><br><p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Source: Associated Press, &#8220;Hillary Calls For End To Electoral College,&#8221; cbsnews.com, Nov. 10, 2000<\/span><\/p> <p>[<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Note:<\/strong> <\/span><em>On Dec. 14, 2020, Hillary Clinton renewed her support for ending the EC, writing on Twitter, &#8220;I believe we should abolish the Electoral College and select our president by the winner of the popular vote, same as every other office.&#8221;<\/em>]<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2. <strong>Joe Biden<\/strong>, President-Elect of the United States: <br><br><p>The New York Times told Biden that many of his Democratic primary challengers &#8220;have proposed major structural reforms to our government and to our democracy. These include abolishing the Electoral College, expanding the size of the Supreme Court, setting term limits for justices, abolishing the legislative filibuster. Which, if any of these, do you support?&#8221;<\/p><br><p>Biden replied, <strong>&#8220;None&#8230; Because that structural change requires constitutional amendments. It raises problems that are more damaging than the problem that exists.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><br><p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Source: New York Times Editorial Board, &#8220;Joe Biden,&#8221; nytimes.com, Jan. 17, 2020<\/span><\/p><\/td><td>2. <strong>Newt Gingrich<\/strong>, former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (R-GA): <br><br><p><strong>\u201cThe winner-take-all method of allotting electoral votes means candidates must focus their efforts on just a handful of closely divided states \u2014 Ohio, Florida, and Virginia being the current examples. In fact, only 12 states received any attention at all from the nominees of either party in the recent general election campaign\u2026Americans would be better served with a presidential election process that treated citizens across the country equally. The National Popular Vote bill accomplishes this in a manner consistent with the Constitution and with our fundamental democratic principles.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><br><p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Source: Letter to John R. Koza, chair of National Popular Vote, available at nationalpopularvote.com, Jan. 14, 2014<\/span><\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>3. <strong>Marco Rubio<\/strong>, US Senator (R-FL): <br><br><p><strong>&#8220;#ElectoralCollege was work of genius by founders. It requires candidates for President to earn votes from various parts of country. And it makes sure interests of less populated areas aren\u2019t ignored at the expense of densely populated areas.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><br><p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Source: Twitter.com, Mar. 19, 2019<\/span><\/p><\/td><td>3. <strong>Elizabeth Warren<\/strong>, US Senator (D-MA): <br><br><p><strong>&#8220;We need to make sure that every vote counts\u2026 You know, come a general election, presidential candidates don&#8217;t come to places like Mississippi\u2026They also don&#8217;t come to places like California and Massachusetts, right? Because we&#8217;re not the \u2018battleground states.\u2019 Well, my view is that every vote matters. And the way we can make that happen is that we can have national voting. And that means get rid of the Electoral College and everybody counts.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><br><p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Source: CNN Town Hall at Jackson State University, transcripts.cnn.com, Mar. 18, 2019<\/span><\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>4. <strong>Andrew Yang<\/strong>, entrepreneur and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate: <br><br><p><strong>&#8220;The problem with deciding Presidential elections via popular vote is that candidates would naturally campaign in urban areas with big media markets and their policies would follow suit. Better to have proportional electoral college votes in each state so you campaign everywhere.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><br><p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Source: Twitter.com, Mar. 17, 2019<\/span><\/p><\/td><td>4. <strong>Pete Buttigieg<\/strong>, Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and nominee for Secretary of Transportation under President-Elect Biden: <br><br><p><strong>&#8220;We need a national popular vote. It would be reassuring from the perspective of believing that we\u2019re a democracy. But I also think it would be highly encouraging of voter participation on the national level. [Ending the Electoral College]&nbsp;wouldn\u2019t be easy to do overnight, but it would also have the function of reminding everybody that structural reforms are an option, and encouraging us to have that level of intellectual ambition.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><br><p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Source: Greg Sargent, &#8220;How Democrats can defeat Trump and his ugly ideas, according to Pete Buttigieg,&#8221; washingtonpost.com, Mar. 19, 2019<\/span><\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>5. <strong>Hans Von Spakovsky<\/strong>, Manager of the Election Law Reform Initiative and Senior Legal Fellow at the Heritage Foundation&#8217;s Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies: <br><br><p><strong>&#8220;Imbued with the ideals of this nation\u2019s Founders, the Electoral College has proved itself both effective in providing orderly elections for President and resilient in allowing a stable transfer of power of the leadership of the world\u2019s greatest democracy&#8230;<\/strong><strong>In an age of perceived political dysfunction, effective policies already in place\u2014especially successful policies established by this nation\u2019s Founders, such as the Electoral College\u2014should be preserved.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><br><p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Source: Hans Von Spakovsky, &#8220;Destroying the Electoral College: The Anti-Federalist National Popular Vote Scheme,&#8221; heritage.org, Feb. 20, 2020<\/span><\/p> <\/td><td>5.&nbsp;<strong>Erwin Chemerinsky<\/strong>, Dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law: <br><br><strong>&#8220;I\u2019m very concerned about the Electoral College.<\/strong> <p><strong>We are the only country in the world that thinks of itself as a democracy where the candidate who loses the (popular vote) can become president.I think the Electoral College should be abolished and the winner of the popular vote should be the president of the United States.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><br><p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Source: Josh Peter, &#8220;Electoral College will pick the president on Monday. Here&#8217;s what you should know,&#8221; usatoday.com, Dec. 13, 2020<\/span><\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>6. <strong>Mike Huckabee<\/strong>, former governor of Arkansas: <br><br><p><strong>\u201cThe Founders feared the tyranny of the majority and created a Constitutional Republic for good reason so that any candidate would have to win broad support across the nation, not just in a handful of heavily-populated cities.Some dismiss this as putting \u2018geography\u2019 ahead of people but it\u2019s actually protecting people. People in farming or ranching states shouldn\u2019t be steamrolled by voters 1,000 miles away who have no understanding or concern about their lives and interests\u2026The Electoral College worked exactly the way it should have in 2016 by preventing two states [California and New York] from imposing their will on the clear preference of the rest of the country, and exactly the way the Founders intended.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><br><p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Source: Mike Huckabee, \u201cGov. Mike Huckabee: The Electoral College protects all Americans,\u201d foxnews.com, Mar. 29, 20196.<\/span><\/p><\/td><td>6.<strong> Eric Holder<\/strong>, Chairman of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee and former US Attorney General under President Obama: <br><br><p><strong>\u201cI\u2019d do away with the Electoral College and make the president be elected by direct popular vote of the people. You know, the president, he or she is the one person who is seen as the national leader, it\u2019s the one national office that we vote for, and to have it go through an Electoral College process where, as we\u2019ve now seen four or five times, where somebody can get fewer popular votes and still end up as president, I think that\u2019s bad. I think if you had direct elections, you would then have Republicans campaigning in New York, campaigning in California. Democrats would campaigning in Texas, for instance, in ways that they do not now. You would truly have national elections. You wouldn\u2019t be spending inordinate amounts of time and money on these so-called &#8216;battleground states.&#8217;\u2026 You also decrease the possibility of fraud.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><br><p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Source: Eric Holder, \u201cThe Supreme Court, Census, Gerrymandering, and the Constitution,\u201d 92y.org, Oct. 13, 2020<\/span><\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>7.<strong> Tara Ross<\/strong>, retired lawyer and author of four books on the Electoral College: <br><br><p><strong>\u201cThe older I get, the more I think that \u2018if it ain\u2019t broke, don\u2019t fix it\u2019 is always the best approach to the Electoral College\u2026 The Founders created checks and balances in 1787 to protect American liberty from the imperfections of human nature. Humans are still imperfect. Safeguards are still needed\u2026American\u2019s presidential election system was designed to serve a large, diverse country&#8230; The Electoral college is, if anything, needed even more today than it was in 1787.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><br><p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Source: Tara Ross, Why We Need the Electoral College, 2017<\/span><\/p><\/td><td>7.<strong> Jamelle Bouie<\/strong>, <em>New York Times<\/em> columnist: <br><br><p><strong>\u201cIf direct election of the president would give equal weight to all votes, then the Electoral College works to give outsize weight to a narrow group of voters in a handful of states. That bias is why Donald Trump is president. A healthy plurality chose his opponent, but his supporters dominated key \u2018swing\u2019 states&#8230;The Electoral College routinely threatens or produces perverse outcomes, where the will of the voters is thwarted by an ill-considered 18th-century electoral device. It has no place in a democracy that strives for a standard of \u2018one person, one vote.\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p><br><p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Source: Jamelle Bouie, \u201cThe Electoral College Is the Greatest Threat to Our Democracy,\u201d nytimes.com, Feb. 28, 2019<\/span><\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>8. <strong>Will Sellers<\/strong>, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama and four-time presidential elector: <br><br><p><strong>\u201cThe Electoral College guarantees that successful presidential candidates will appeal to large swaths of the American landscape, and that the president himself will reflect the diversity of various regional ideas. It orchestrates the American chorus so that every section of the country will be heard by a serious presidential candidate. We might not always like the outcome; it is always frustrating when your candidate loses, especially if he or she won the popular vote. Nevertheless, the remedy is not to change the rules, but rather to master the nuances of the rules in order to organize a presidential campaign so that it attracts supporters\u2014and votes\u2014from all portions of the country.\u201d<\/strong><\/p> <p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Source: Will Sellers, \u201cIn Defense of the Electoral College,\u201d city-journal.org, Nov. 3, 2020<\/span><\/p><\/td><td>8. <strong>Mehdi Hasan<\/strong>, political analyst and host of <em>The Mehdi Hasan Show<\/em> on NBC&#8217;s Peacock network: <br><br><p><strong>&#8220;Since the start of this century, the United States has elected two Republican presidents \u2013 Trump and George W. Bush \u2013 who lost the national popular vote but won the majority of electoral college votes. How so? The electoral college elevates smaller, rural Republican states at the expense of bigger, more urban Democratic states. Compare California to Wyoming: the former has one electoral vote per 712,000 people, while the latter has one per 195,000 people. That means a vote in Wyoming has 3.6 times the impact in the electoral college as a vote in California.<\/strong><strong>The core of democracy is supposed to be the principle of one person, one vote, but the electoral college makes a mockery of that principle. And guess what? Most Americans agree. In June, a PRRI poll found that two-thirds (68 per cent) of Americans would prefer electing their presidents on the basis of the national popular vote, as opposed to the electoral college.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><br><p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Source: Mehdi Hasan, \u201cEight simple steps to fix American democracy,\u201d newstatesman.com, Nov. 1, 2018<\/span><\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>9. <strong>Laura Ingraham<\/strong>, host of <em>The Ingraham Angle<\/em> on Fox News Channel: <br><br><p><strong>\u201cThe Founders designed the Electoral College as part of the overall system of checks and balances. So that all 50 states, not just the most populous ones, have a meaningful say in electing the president\u2026Without the Electoral College, we\u2019ll essentially be living in something akin to a tyranny disguised as a democracy, with a handful of liberal states making all the decisions for the rest of us.<\/strong><strong>For instance, California, with its super-Democrat majority, believes in sanctuary cities, of course pot legalization, taxes, regulating anything that moves. And their values and concerns, it\u2019s a beautiful state, but their values and concerns often do not match up with those of other states like South Carolina, Indiana, Georgia\u2026 And that\u2019s why the Electoral College provides a necessary balance.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><br><p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Source: Laura Ingraham, \u201cIngraham: Democrats move to sideline middle America,\u201d video.foxnews.com, May 31, 2019<\/span><\/p><\/td><td>9. <strong>Samantha Bee<\/strong>, comedian and host of the news satire show <em>Full Frontal with Samantha Bee<\/em>: <br><br><p><strong>\u201cTrump\u2019s so-called election [despite losing the popular vote] is just one of the many reasons the Electoral College sucks and should be abolished\u2026 Americans have known for a long time that this system stinks, and for decades they\u2019ve preferred a popular vote. That goes all the way back to a poll from 1944 when two-thirds of Americans supported a popular vote\u2026Under the current system, the only votes that really matter are the swing states\u2026 And yet, the conservative argument for the Electoral College always panics over candidates ignoring the small states. Even though that\u2019s exactly what\u2019s already happening.Regardless of which side benefits, the Electoral College is unfair and undemocratic by design. It\u2019s time to ditch it.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><br><p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Source: Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, \u201cIt\u2019s Time to Cancel the Electoral College | Full Frontal on TBS,\u201d YouTube.com, Sep. 11, 2019<\/span><\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>10. <strong>Trent England<\/strong>, David and Ann Brown Distinguished Fellow at the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs and founder\/executive director of Save Our States: <br><br><p><strong>\u201cThe Electoral College prevents candidates from winning simply by driving up the popular vote (legitimately or otherwise) in a few states where they are already popular. Those \u201csafe states\u201d remain important, however, as the base that gives their preferred party and candidate legitimacy. From there, the Electoral College creates an incentive for campaigns to expand into marginal states\u2026The Electoral College works even better than the American founders hoped. It allows states to remain in charge of elections, contains disputes, limits fraud, and promotes a duopoly of diverse national coalition parties rather than a proliferation of interest-group or geographic parties.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><br><p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Source: Trent England, \u201cIn Defense of the Electoral College,\u201d firstthings.com, Dec. 13, 2020<\/span><\/p><\/td><td>10. <strong>Jesse Wegman<\/strong>, author and member of the <em>New work Times<\/em> editorial board: <br><br><p><strong>\u201cI first became aware of how the Electoral College really functions and dysfunctions back in 2000, when, for the first time in anybody\u2019s living memory, it split between the popular vote and the Electoral College. That year George W. Bush won the Electoral College and became President, despite losing the popular vote to Al Gore by about 530,000 votes\u2026It struck me that, if we are choosing a president to lead the whole country, that person should be chosen by the whole country, with everybody counting equally. But because of the way the Electoral College works, that\u2019s not how it happened\u2026<\/strong><\/p><br><p><strong>The whole point of this is people should count equally, no matter where they live. A voter in New York city should count no less and no more than a voter in Wyoming. Everyone should count equally. That\u2019s one person, one vote, the principle at the heart of a representative democracy.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><br><p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Source: Quinn Kowitt, \u201cAbolish the Electoral College: A Q&amp;A with Jesse Wegman,\u201d newschoolfreepress.com, Dec. 22, 2020<\/span><\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<div class=\"speaker-mute footnotes_reference_container\"> <div class=\"footnote_container_prepare\"><p><span role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"footnote_reference_container_label pointer\" onclick=\"footnote_expand_collapse_reference_container_125_1();\">References<\/span><span role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"footnote_reference_container_collapse_button\" style=\"display: none;\" onclick=\"footnote_expand_collapse_reference_container_125_1();\">[<a id=\"footnote_reference_container_collapse_button_125_1\">+<\/a>]<\/span><\/p><\/div> <div id=\"footnote_references_container_125_1\" style=\"\"><table class=\"footnotes_table footnote-reference-container\"><caption class=\"accessibility\">References<\/caption> <tbody> \r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_125_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_125_1_1');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_125_1_1\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>1<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Rebecca Salzer and Jocelyn Kiley, &#8220;Majority of Americans Continue to Favor Moving Away from Electoral College,&#8221; pewresearch.org, August 5, 2022<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n <\/tbody> <\/table> <\/div><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function footnote_expand_reference_container_125_1() { jQuery('#footnote_references_container_125_1').show(); jQuery('#footnote_reference_container_collapse_button_125_1').text('\u2212'); } function footnote_collapse_reference_container_125_1() { jQuery('#footnote_references_container_125_1').hide(); jQuery('#footnote_reference_container_collapse_button_125_1').text('+'); } function footnote_expand_collapse_reference_container_125_1() { if (jQuery('#footnote_references_container_125_1').is(':hidden')) { footnote_expand_reference_container_125_1(); } else { footnote_collapse_reference_container_125_1(); } } function footnote_moveToReference_125_1(p_str_TargetID) { footnote_expand_reference_container_125_1(); var l_obj_Target = jQuery('#' + p_str_TargetID); if (l_obj_Target.length) { jQuery( 'html, body' ).delay( 0 ); jQuery('html, body').animate({ scrollTop: l_obj_Target.offset().top - window.innerHeight * 0.2 }, 380); } } function footnote_moveToAnchor_125_1(p_str_TargetID) { footnote_expand_reference_container_125_1(); var l_obj_Target = jQuery('#' + p_str_TargetID); if (l_obj_Target.length) { jQuery( 'html, body' ).delay( 0 ); jQuery('html, body').animate({ scrollTop: l_obj_Target.offset().top - window.innerHeight * 0.2 }, 380); } }<\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Support for the Electoral College has decreased among the general public since the 2020 presidential election. 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