[Hermann the Cherusker]

The main problem with the Electoral College is that it builds into every election the possibility, which has been a reality three times since the Civil War, that the president will be a candidate who lost the popular vote. This shocks people in other nations who have been taught to look upon the United States as the world's oldest democracy.

The leaders of most other nations are not elected by majorites, but by pluralities (rather like all Democrat Presidents since 1944, except Johnson and Carter). In the parliamentary regimes, the voters don't even get to choose their leaders - the parties do, and then the voters get merely the choice of party or local party representative if they are lucky (as in Canada and Britain).

[Natural Law]

They have been taught incorrectly. A democracy is five wolves and a labd voting on whats for lunch. This a constitutional republic.

[Natural Law]

They have been taught incorrectly. A democracy is five wolves and a labd voting on whats for lunch. This a constitutional republic.

[Paleo Conservative]

This shocks people in other nations who have been taught to look upon the United States as the world's oldest democracy.

This should shock the New York Times The USA is a republic not a democracy.

At the close of the Constitutional Convention, a woman asked Benjamin Franklin what type of government the Constitution was bringing into existence. Franklin replied, "A republic, if you can keep it."

Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on the dinner menu...
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote!!!"

Benjamin Franklin

Getting rid of the Electoral College would abolish the republic.

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

"...taught to look upon the United States as the world's oldest democracy"

Hmmm...seems the Slimes doesn't know what kind of a government we have - it is, for the benefit of those in NYC and Yorba Linda, a REPUBLIC!