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electoral college has been our method of electing president's since eth
constitution was formed. With increasing populations and the addition of third parties, it can be questioned however, as to whether or not this I still a functional method of elections. There have been many cases in history where a president has been elected to office without having the popular vote. Because after all when you vote in the primaries, you are not voting for a candidate, you are voting for an elector who then in turn voted for the candidate that won the popular vote in that state. Seems to work okay, right? Not quite. Let us say that candidate has 56% of the vote in a state. That doesn't mean he gets half of the votes, that means he gets all the electoral votes that state has. This no big if you live in Vermont, but if you are talking about California with 54 electoral votes, you are talking about a lot of electoral votes! If you got 36% should you get about that much of the electoral votes, that would be close to 18 electoral votes you could have towards your victory, but instead you get NONE, nada ZIP!
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