Read the Constitution, the Articles of Confederation, the Bill of Rights, and the Federalist Papers. Pick up a history book. If you don't understand our government, don't know the job of the President, and don't care how it all works, why are you voting?

Eliminating the Electoral College and going to the popular vote would mean that every vote of every citizen is utterly equal. As such, it is nonsensical to speak of CA or NY electing the president. The borders of the states wouldn't make any difference in terms of the vote itself.

Yes the borders do make a difference. If a standing president promises and provide a big block of funding to California, for example, right before an Election, those in Nevada get no benefit. Its a vote is a vote, but the political favors and spending would be applied to the larger populace states and cities.

Any national election within the error rate would have to have a manual recount and subject our largest cities (chicago, new york, seattle, LA) to intense questions about the way we vote. Fact is it would take the lawyers and Supreme court about a year or two to count the votes of any election. Can you imagine an recount involving Chicago?

And I haven't even gotten to voter registration law.

One of my favorite solutions would be a state level one, and that is to divide the electoral college votes by congressional district with the third going to the popular vote winner state wide. I think a couple of states already do this.

But I don't see a move towards a popular vote winner having much success.

Our founding fathers design this system to have a weak Central Government.

The Articles of Confederation were designed to have a weak central government, the Constitution was designed to make a stronger one.

Yes and the U.S. is a Republic. Are you suggesting we overthrow our Government? Perhaps you think we should do away with State’s borders entirely?

Our founding fathers design this system to have a weak Central Government. It was originally design around the individual rights first then local then State then lastly Federal rights. Unfortunately we have lost that wisdom. We have allowed the central government to become way too powerful and that will be our ultimate downfall.

If one is arguing that the more populated parts of the country would have an impact on the election directly proportional to the size of the population in question, well that has a name: democracy.

Yes, but as we've said before, democracy does not necessarily translate to liberty.

KRAMER for PRESIDENT!!

If one is arguing that the more populated parts of the country would have an impact on the election directly proportional to the size of the population in question, well that has a name: democracy.

This is to be contrasted, by the way, with a system that weighs the vote of some citizens (e.g., Alaskans) as counting more that the votes of citizens.

Give me a break Steven--The REAL America is in places like Alaska, Wyoming, and the small town America that patriots like Sarah Palin have led.

The cities--while they generate most of the country's wealth and culture--are filled with liberals and immigrants and are, by their very definition, cesspools of iniquity and evil.

If we let those clowns have a equal vote, it would be like Israel letting inhabitants of the occupied territories vote: We would be sent a-packing by the cabal of cosmopolitan community organizers.