[Moonman62]

The electoral college was brilliant innovation of our founders, insuring that small states would still get a voice in the election.

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Yes, it’s integral with state’s rights and federalism I think. If we go to the popular vote it will make it that much easier for the crooked politicians to keep flooding the country with idiots and government dependents who will never hold the government accountable.

[mmichaels1970]

Yes, it’s integral with state’s rights and federalism I think

It is. Wouldn't it be cool if more states based their gubernatorial elections on the same premise? Where state legislative districts would also cast one electoral vote for governor? That would allow rural communities to have more equal say with the three or four big-city state population centers and would ensure executive government at the state level represented all people from all walks of life.