[Rightly Biased]

It's hard to tell New York City children that every vote is equally important

Then explain to the children that the electoral college makes every vote equally importatnt.

[risk]

That's part of their grand "third way" scheme: convince Americans that we really have direct democracy. Then they'll be able to buy our votes directly, as much as they've been trying to do indirectly for years -- in all parties. This is not a direct democracy, and it won't last for 20 years once it has been converted to such. But the anti-EC people want that. They want it to be "more democratic."

It's a Republic, if we can keep it! --Benjamin Franklin