Ok, so, the Electoral College is a fairly controversial thing. A lot of people think it is a corrupt and unjust system, and other people are wrong. So, what the -blam!- is going on with the electoral college? [b]Why it needs to end[/b] Why does the Electoral College need to end? It's fairly simple, the EC is an undemocratic system in which some people are suddenly intrinsically worth more based on where they live. A person living in California has 0.000001375 of an an electoral vote. Whereas someone living in North Dakota has 0.0000428571 of an electoral vote. This means that that person's vote counts for a little more than three times as much as the Californian's vote does. This leads to a system where we are voluntarily disenfranchising our own voting populous, simply because they live in a more populous state. [b]But-butt, the EC means that smaller states are relevant, it means that politicians care about them![/b] Yeahhhhh, not true. Sorry. The electoral college shifts the focus onto a couple of swing states that will win the election. For instance. Most Republicans don't heavily campaign in Alabama, due to the all-or-nothing nature of the EC. Likewise, most Democrats don't do a ton of campaigning in Oregon, simply because Oregon will pretty much always vote blue. So where do politicians campaign? Swing states. There are a couple of states that determine the entire election. If you can win more swing states than your opposition, you will win the election. Because of this, most politicians focus their campaigns almost exclusively on winning the election in those states. [b]But without the EC, coastal cities will run everything![/b] Once again, sorry, not true. If you combine the populations of the top ten largest cities in the US (taken from https://www.moving.com/tips/the-top-10-largest-us-cities-by-population/), you get a population size of around 26,000,000. This number is less than a tenth of the US population. And this is assuming that every single person in there votes, and votes the same way. [b]For all you people who are about to re about the US being a [i]Constitutional Republic[/i] I have one thing to say[/b] Get an actual reason. No, really, you are committing an [i]ought is[/i] fallacy. You are arguing that because the US is one way, it should be that way. Which isn't true. We were a slave nation at one point, doesn't mean that it was right. Women weren't allowed to vote for much of American history, but that doesn't mean that they shouldn't be allowed to vote. [b]And lastly, a fun fact to toy around with[/b] In the 2016 election, Hillary Clinton lost the EC vote by a factor of about 3:2 despite winning the popular vote by about 3 million votes. If that doesn't speak to the state of the EC, I don't know what will. Thanks for reading.