21.   Instead, they elect representatives to the electoral college, which then meets to choose the president.

22.   It is also possible that Americans who assumed that presidents are always chosen by the people are in for an education.

23.   It seems unfathomable that a great country would entrust so much of the task of choosing presidents to such a tiny, quirky wedge of itself.

24.   MacArthur seems to have a predilection for choosing college presidents as chiefs.

25.   No one seriously tries to defend it as an exercise in representative government, as if the voters were actually choosing someone else to choose the president for them.

26.   On the first Tuesday of November every four years, with monotonous regularity, Americans choose a president.

27.   Polls show that abortion ranks low among issues that matter most to voters in choosing presidents.

28.   Previously, presidents were chosen by the Legislature.

29.   Rank and file Teamsters will choose the president in November in an election designed to fight corruption in a union with a history of voting fraud.

30.   Since America chooses its president through the Electoral College, not by direct popular vote, this is the relevant measure.