Then, there are the folks who know better but do not like American Government. They would like to get rid of the Declaration of Independence and/or the Constitution and/or the Bill of Rights.

If they understood the meaning of “federal” they would know it meant an organization of states, each with equal powers. We elect the President of the Unites States on a state-by-state basis. Within each state, each voter has an equal say in the election, and the candidate with the most votes either wins all of the electors or his share of the electors depending how the people of each state choose to assign them.

If we change to a popular election, then the states of New York and California will always have the final say in who is president. This means the candidates will not need to bother campaigning in smaller states and the voters there might as well skip the presidential election.

If you think this is a superior system, then I suggest you move to a place where this is the way they do things. We’ve had an electoral college for two hundred years and it has served us well. It is the system that elected Abraham Lincoln. If hadn’t been president during the Civil War, the South would have won, slaves would not have been freed, there would be no constitutional amendment prohibiting slavery, and both the Union and the Confederacy would have been unable to prevent European powers from invading our borders.

The consequences would not have been pretty.