Electoral College & you

If you think you joined tens of millions of Americans around the country voting for Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton – or any of the other candidates – to elect the next president, you’re sort of right. But you’re also sort of wrong.

The United States doesn’t have a single election for president. It has 50 separate elections for president, one in each state, and the votes don’t actually determine who is president, but rather who goes the state’s Electoral College to vote for president.

The Electoral College is one of those buffers the Founding Fathers erected to protect the new nation from something that really worried them: direct democracy.

Despite what you may hear from candidates, the founders weren’t big fans of democracy, which they regarded as a half-step away from mob rule.

They wanted voters to pick the people who would pick the president/ Jim Camden , SR. More here.

Question: Would you like to see this country do away with the Electoral College?