re: Dems: t's Time to Abandon the Electoral College

If the US amended the Constitution snd went to a popular vote for president, the country would end up like NY State where NY metro calls all the shots at the state level.
Talk to any citizen of upstate NY snd they will tell you they gave no say so in state wide elections.

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NY State where NY metro calls all the shots at the state level.
Talk to any citizen of upstate NY snd they will tell you they gave no say so in state wide elections.

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to a lesser degree, louisiana is the same way. nola/br/Laffy have all the power, the rest of the state not so mich

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No. Land doesn't vote, people do. The current system discourages voting because too many people feel their votes won't count in certain states.

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Idiot...without the EC then your vote truly doesn't count.

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Land doesn't vote, dumbass

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Going to try to use math and logic to educate you. For every person living in the US, 8 acres of rural land (crops, ranges, and wilderness) are required to sustain our healthy, well-nourished existence (food, air, water, natural resourcss). Countries that have less than 5 acres per person suffer from malnutrition, famine, poor air & water quality.

Therefore if Harris County, TX has ~ 4.7 million people, 37.6 million acres of rural land (larger than the state of Alabama) are required to sustain the urban area. There are people required to farm the livestock, crops, and timber required.

Knowing that rural areas were vital to sustaining urban areas (without farms in the countryside, cities would be towns and villages) the electoral college was enacted so that the people in the rural areas had representation in presidential elections.

Furthermore, the founding fathers were highly educated men. They knew every democracy on earth has failef and devolved into “mob rule” - read the Federalist Papers. They sought a republic with democratic aspects.