Should we keep or get rid of the electoral college? (poll, school)

[bjh]

In 2000 Gore won the popular vote nationwide and Bush 43 won the electoral college vote because of the weight of electoral votes for key states.

In 2016 again, the candidate who won the popular vote did not win the electoral college vote.

Should we keep or get rid of the electoral college? I'd like to see City-Data poll numbers. Poll is anonymous.

[dechatelet]

Getting rid of the electoral college would make as much sense as getting rid of the states.

That's not what the founders intended.

We are not -- and were never meant to be -- a pure democracy.

We are a republic in which the minority -- as individuals and as states -- get to have a say.

Thus, the states elect the president, not the majority of people nationwide.

That's the way it should be, and that's the way it's going to stay.

[Chava61]

The electoral college system needed to be reformed to 21st century standards.

[knowledgeiskey]

Get rid of it.

[tinytrump]

i think needs tweaking- and hard rules made

[InformedConsent]

Keep it. The US, United STATES, is a Federal Constitutional Republic, not a mob rule country.

[T-310]

Keep it.

[shiftymh]

It's worked out well twice in the past 2 decades. Keep it.

[BentBow]

Originally Posted by bjh

In 2000 Gore won the popular vote nationwide and Bush 43 won the electoral college vote because of the weight of electoral votes for key states.

In 2016 again, the candidate who won the popular vote did not win the electoral college vote.

Should we keep or get rid of the electoral college? I'd like to see City-Data poll numbers. Poll is anonymous.

We are a Constitutional Republic.
If you think it is a Democracy, you should sue your teachers in school.

[BentBow]

Originally Posted by Chava61

The electoral college system needed to be reformed to 21st century standards.

It is. California and New York lost population to Texas and Florida.