[pankot]

When I read “Stanford University Professor”, that was reason enough to dismiss his idea. Besides, the Founders intended that the Electoral College was a protection for states with smaller population. Otherwise California and New York could elect a President.

[johnthebaptistmoore]

Letting the cities decide all future POTUS=Leftist power, forever! This is the definitive problem with getting rid of the Electoral College.

[Tzimisce]

You need a Constitutional Amendment to take out the Electoral College.

Anything else is just corruption on a Grand Scale....

[Lmo56]

To All -

In 1970, this came up as a proposed amendment in Congress. It passed the House and I think it was on the verge of getting out of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Then, an obscure staffer for the Minority [GOP] wrote a dissenting brief that was sent to the Committee. The bill was tabled and NEVER brought to the Senate Floor for a vote.

He musta made a helluva argument ...

[Mike Darancette]

“We’re perpetually kind of rolling the dice in presidential elections in this country and risking electing someone who didn’t get the most votes,” Mr. Thompson said at the event. “It’s an unnecessary risk.”

Fred old chap, that is exactly what happened in 2000; thank God.

[corvus]

Another temptation to ‘change’ the Constitution. The electoral college was envisioned by the Framers as one of many checks and balances on the concentration of too much political power. Then it was larger states numerical advantage over the smaller states. As many here have posted, it is as valid today as it ever was, maybe more so. And the concept applies to in-state governance as well. Each state of the union has at least one large city, and as every body knows, states like Illinois are led around by the nose by Chicago, a political entity not many of us revere.

[xzins]

These people don’t have a clue what the electoral college was all about.

If one notices that the word “political party” appears absolutely no place in the US Constitution, nor does two-party system, nor does “campaign”, ... then it is imperative that the person figure out HOW the electoral college operated in the absence of “parties” and “campaigns.”

And therein lies the divinely inspired genius of the Founders when it came to selecting a president.

[pabianice]

Right. Two-thirds of the Congress. Three-quarters of the states. Uh-huh. That’ll happen. /S

[IbJensen]

Hey Fred! We're glad now that you pulled out...stay out!

You've forgotten that this is supposed to be a republic and you were supposed to be a Republican.

Now, fade away into obscurity!

[PeterPrinciple]

There is no perfect system bit I prefer the system we have. Change has a lot of unforeseen consequences.

[yup2394871293]

To think I once considered voting for that idjit.