My argument against the Electoral collage is a simple one.
It was built due to a logistics problem, not to maintain fairness to lower populated states. (Lets remember that the founding fathers really couldn't care less about fairness, for examples, only white land owners could vote, they owned slaves, and the little act of attempted genocide the ran for several decades on the native people here.) Since the logistics problem is no longer there we do not need the system.
As it works now, the vast majority of the votes cast for president are worthless. - Hell last election if you did not live in Florida your vote didn't matter.
I think a lot of people feel this way and it is one of the reasons we have such low voter turnout.
I believe there should be true majority rule, but without persecution to the minority.
Of course I also think that the Federal governments scope should not extend beyond what is written in the constitution, and Senetors should still be elected by the congress so that "maybe" they would still be acting in the best interest of the country as a whole as opposed to being just another "pork barrel" body of the bloated sow padding bills with "money for nothing" back to their home states
It is a shitty system, but I have to give it it's due - It is about the best shitty system out there
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