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"As much as I hate to say it "I agree with this DemoRAT". The electoral college has long outlived it's usefulness. With todays communications setup we don't need it."

WHOA! Todays communications are the exact reason why we must never ever end the electoral college. Think about it, we have 50 states the state are equal, I personally do not wish to be dictated to by the likes of LA, NYC, Philly, Chicago, Seattle, and the rest of the BLUE Zones of this nation.

With todays communications setup we don't need it."

It isn't because of communications that we need it. The issue has to do with distribution of electoral power, not who wields that power, which nowdays is in the hands of the voters of the states almost exclusively.

zYou might regard the actual assembly of electors as an anachronism, though it is a charming one. One of these days something might happen which will make us happy that the electors are sentient humans rather than computor wired up to the popular vote count in the various states.