The presidency should be decided by a straight-up national vote. Period. Any system that can award the presidency to a candidate who actually received fewer votes than his/her opponent is bogus. Imagine that the governorship of your own state was determined not by a direct popular vote of your state's residents but by awarding electoral votes to the winner of each county with the number of electoral votes assigned to each county determined by its population. What would you think of a system like that? You'd think it was ridiculous, and you would be right. So is the electoral college. If presidents were elected by the popular vote, by the PEOPLE of the United States of America then you might all of a sudden feel a lot more compelled to add your vote into the mix.
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