‘Pandemoniac' Yankees; Lost In An Archaic E-College

Pandemic deaths averaged 1200 with over 120,000 new cases added each day, while election hanged on swing states for four days.

- KKS Perera

Finally Joe Biden winning and Donald Trump fading; it did not end in a tie as some expected. It’s not the citizen but a body of people called electors chosen or appointed by a larger group representing the states, will formally cast votes for the election of the President of United States of America.

YANKEES

Yankee and its contracted form Yank with several interrelated meanings is used as a colloquial term for Americans in other nations, and may refer to New Englanders, people of the Northern United States, or Americans in general. Oxford Dictionary, says, “a nickname for a native or inhabitant of New England, or, more widely, of the northern States generally”. Our political colossus Junius Richard was nick-named “Yanky Dickie” by his Marxist colleagues, NM, Colvin and Pieter, for his absolute loyalty to US, which stance he changed when White House ignored his please for a protest on Rajiv Gandhi’s dhall drop in 1987. A more matured JR commented, “Indian market, [though a die-hard supporter of Russia in the then two-power cold war] is more important to America than this tiny island.”

ELECTORAL COLLEGES

There were six states in 1824, in which electors were legislatively appointed; in 1832, only South Carolina had not transitioned. Electors in every state since 1880, have been chosen based on an election. An election expert reflected on the original intent as follows: