The electoral college is about balancing the power of states vs. the individuals in the country. It is a compromise that ensures that individual states do not become more powerful than others. somethig we have lost sight of over the years is that individual states were seen by our founding fathers as being closer to sovereign nations than to provinces.

Rember, we are NOT a democracy and the founding fathers never intended us to be one.

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“In my lifetime, we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution, I believe that in twelve years, we'll be voting for plants.”
-Lewis Black

"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."
-Benjamin Franklin

"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine. "
-Thomas Jefferson