Well, the reason we have an electoral college is to prevent a minority of highly populated states from dominating over less populated states.
Especially if, for some reason, voter turnout is greater in this densely populated states, while less in the "rural" states.
There is QUITE the potential that a highly active voter base in, say NY and CA, could dominate smaller states, who might feel excluded or unrepresented in the popular vote.
It also would permit politicians to exclude smaller states during their campaigns, focusing instead on the more populated states.
Too bad Hillary fails to realize that we're a Representative Republic, and NOT a pure democracy where popular votes decided the elections.
There's a reason that our founders chose such a system over a unicameral parliamentary system infested with no-confidence votes, fallen governments, and political coalitions of convenience. Just look at Israel, where Sharon and the Likud party are threatening to overthrow Barak's government in the midst of one of that nation's most critical periods of its recent history.
Can you imagine the ramifications, if during the gulf war, suddenly the democrats had attempted to overthrow the Bush administration?
Of if the Republicans had attempted to overthrow the Clinton administration through a "no-confidence" vote, which would have spurred new elections?
Hillary just doesn't get it... (or she does and is trying to twist it to her advantage). |
