Reply #16: Like I said [View All]

[Egnever]

Its not perfect it has its problems. However doing away with it entirely for a majority rule only type of election also has problems.

Can you not envision an election where only the interests of the major cities are represented ignoring all the issues of the small towns spread far and wide across the country simply because of the population densities of the large metropolitan areas? While this may or may not produce results you might like it would in my opinion have a serious potential of completely removing large portions of americans from representation.

While it may be chic to say the electoral college is a "clunker" Reality is it has only gone against the popular vote a couple of times in all the elections we have had in the history of this country. These times may or may not be a problem I think that is a debatable.

Again I am not trying to say the electoral college is perfect It definitely should be looked at very closely. However doing away with it simply to go to a majority only vote is problematic also in my opinion.