Let’s Kill the Electoral College So We Never Have to Pay Attention to Ohio and Florida Again | Alternet

Thanks to the Electoral College, and our bizarre system of assigning electoral votes, and our decentralized and easily demogogued system of determining who gets to vote, and when, and how, the minority of voters who show up to vote in midterms and off-year elections choose the men who control the ballots and the polling places, and those men (and, once, Katherine Harris) do everything they can to ensure that people have a hard time of it.

This is what needs to change,,,voter turnout at mid-term elections,,,where the few (that actually vote) are able to determine the course of action for the many,,,

A purely popular vote-based election, in which Obama actually tried to turn out supporters in Crown Heights and Berkeley while Romney barnstormed the old Confederacy for three months, would definitely horrify Washington mandarins devoted to the Great White Independent, but it might help battle the popular perception that winning with blacks, Hispanics and young people doesn’t “count.” (It would also give slightly more power to minorities in “red” states and those oh-so-bitter conservatives in “blue” ones.)

I'm not quite sure where I personally stand,,,I can see both sides of the argument,,,

Let’s Kill the Electoral College So We Never Have to Pay Attention to Ohio and Florida Again | Alternet