The slave states were afraid the more populous free states would use their greater clout to abolish slavery, and wanted more input into the selection of the president. Thus the electoral college should have been abolished when slavery was abolished.
I’m reminded of a televised race a couple of years ago. One of the broadcast team pointed out that jockeys don’t sit on their saddles DURING the race; they stand in the stirrups and crouch over their horses’ necks. He asked for a couple of volunteers to try to crouch for two minutes, the approximate time it takes to run a (very fast) Kentucky Derby. Two guys took him up on it. At the end of two minutes their legs ached and they had greater respect for the athleticism of jockeys, who after all do their crouches for anywhere from a minute to two and a half minutes while going up to 30 mph.
I think the closest my parents ever came to divorcing was when my yellow-dog Democratic father found out that my mother voted for Nixon over McGovern. He HATED Nixon.
When we lived in Florida, northbound traffic was always bumper to bumper as Easter approached and the snowbirds went back to their families. My husband claimed he overheard two cops on the day after Easter, one telling the other, “You know what day this is? It’s the end of left-lane season.”
That sounds like a country-western song.