【单选题】Hastings's response to Markham's argument that the history of the American government 'shows that it [the Electoral College] is doing something right' would most likely be which of the following?
A.
Under the current system, each voter in Alaska has proportionately three times as much voting power as each candidate in Florida.
B.
We do not know whether or not the American government would have been equally stable had the president been elected by a direct popular election since the beginning.
C.
If the candidate who lost the popular election won the presidency four times in 200 years, there is something wrong with the system.
D.
Maintaining a strong federal system is less important than upholding the principle that each vote should count equally.
E.
A process that maintained the Electoral College but removed the winner-take-all system would substantially reduce the disenfranchisement that occurs under the current system.