Senator! Sit down and shut up!
The Elector College serves a very important purpose, like it or not. It keeps heavily populated areas from domineering the election.
Had there been no Electoral College in '00 or '04, states like NM, NH, etc., would have had little-to-no significance. Elections would be determined by NYC, LA, DFW, Houston, Jacksonville, Chicago.
The Founding Fathers had much more wisdom and insight, and a whole lot less polical agenda than YOU, Diane. They created the Electoral College to give better representation and significance to the rural areas. It is amazing the insights they had.
It is frightening the idiocy contemporary lawmakers show---you wanting to eliminate the Electoral College; Hatch and others wanting to allow foreigners to run for the Presidency; Hatch wanting to allow foreigners to vote in OUR election.
That's the problem with liberals. They believe a fair system is one where everyone is equal. The current system favors rural and small states at the expense of large population centers. For a so-called fair system, the needs of the large population centers outway the needs of the few who live in small or rural states.
Personally, I like the EC system becasue of this balance. Otherwise you would have a situation like Canada or the UK where all the political power is concentrated in a few, densly populated areas. All the laws and poplicies would be favoring those areas and totaly neglecting the oulying areas.