The electoral college is undemocratic. So Republicans in Hawaii and Massachusetts deserve to be essentially disenfranchised in Presidential elections? Anyone thinking the electoral college is democratic is outright wrong, it's a sham that the Founding Fathers made because they thought people were too stupid to vote. Whether they are or not, they should get the chance. How ironic that a site called FreeRepublic would have so many people who oppose actual direct elections.
Then, of course, you disapprove of the US Senate also, since California and Rhode Island have the same number of Senators - two. Shouldn't California have many more Senators just to be 'fair'? The Electoral College is not 'undemocratic' as you stated, every State in the Union gets representation equal to the number of its Represenatives and Senators in Congress, the people of each of the States have an equal chance to vote for a particular Slate of Electors of their State - what could be more fair than this?
If you are objecting to the fact that 48 of the 50 States in the Union use a 'winner-take-all' solution to the allocation of their allotted Electors - that is a matter for each State Legislature to decide. There is nothing in the Federal Constitution which prevents States from allocating Electors based on a proportional plan, a district plan, 'winner-take-all' or even be selected directly by the State Legislature.
Your beef is with the State Legislatures, not the Electoral College. However, direct nationwide popular elections, heavens no. The Consititution was configured to have the qualified population vote directly for their Representative in the House and is the only Federal vote which was originally mandated by the Constitution. The Seventeenth amendment forced on the nation by the Populists now has the voters choose the Senators also in direct popular elections - a big mistake. Since the United States is a Federal Republic of 50 sovereign States, there should be no Federal national election for the office of President and Vice-President, the States are the ones to choose the holders of those Offices.
Can you think of one Federal Office which is selected by a direct nation-wide Federal office? There are none since we are a nation with dual sovereigns - State and Federal.
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Ha ha, great imitationm of a stupid left-winger. You just forgot the /sarcasm tag.