What every other democratic country in the world has really figured out is that democracy is more than simply achieving nationwide vote pluralities or majorities and calling it a day.

In fact, a good argument can be made, that the Electoral College is the precursor; the prefigurement and inspiration, of all equal and civil rights movements to ever come to America.

From Barack Obama to Donald Trump, through natural disasters and technological breakthroughs, we've had one constant this decade: A flood of money to the left from Dr. John Koza.

An oft-repeated but false claim about the Electoral College is that it was created as part of a bargain to preserve slavery and bolster the political power of Southern states. A recent op-ed in the Hickory Daily Record, a local paper in North Carolina, repeats this inaccurate charge, and a few others as well. In the interest of correcting the record, below is a refutation of the two most significant inaccurate statements in the piece.