In Response to:the Electorial College Needs To GO!

The Electoral College Needs To GO!

I'd like to start by saying that this is a thought that should scare you. If there wasn't an Electoral College, the smaller, less populated states would more than likely lose their voice. No on would care for them. Major politicians wouldn't give a hoot about the 'little people' in the small states because they wouldn't really need their votes in the end.

There would also be a chance that our nation's leader could be chosen by one person. It could be anyone, and it would more than likely be some one that's not as smart as the next person because the smarter people have already gone & given their vote. So the next president could be chosen by that crazy guy next door that talks to his cats. Then there would be a whole issue on whether people that are diagnosed with mental disabilities should be able to vote, with the chance that the votes are tied & it relies on one person & that person ends up being crazy.

The Bush/Gore election was also mentioned. You want to know how may times that has happened in the more than two-hundred years that this country has been alive has the popular vote not won. Twice, and that just means our system is working. In American Idol ( I think I am required as a teenager to make at least one pop culture reference) there was a situation where by some error an untalented singer was chosen and people got together and kept voting for him in spite for the show. Who says America wouldn't do the same in the situation where the people were given the power to tip the polls like that? It is after all American Idol. I think it's somewhat of a naive thought to think that something like that wouldn't happen under those circumstances.

To conclude, I think that if we got rid of the electoral college it would do harm to the people, future & government.