Outdated Electoral College

The Electoral College is the group of people who actually vote for the president.  So why do we vote?  We vote to elect the people to the electoral college.  When the constitution was written, the founders weren’t 100% confident the American people would pick a viable candidate.  The founders wanted to make sure that intelligent people picked an intelligent president.  Thus the people would vote for intelligent representatives who would cast the official vote for president.  This way the people couldn’t just pick anyone out of a hat who wouldn’t be qualified to take on the responsibilities of president. 

Presently, the electoral college is outdated.  Except for in 2000, when Al Gore won the popular vote and Bush won the presidency with the majority of the Electoral College votes, the popular vote and Electoral College have had majorities in favor of the same candidate.  So the system works quite well, or does it.  Why didn’t it work in 2000 and is it ok that it didn’t work out?

In my opinion, the Electoral College is outdated and prohibits a free election process.  There are several reasons.  Does one vote even matter?  If your state always vote for one party and as they system is set up, winner takes all, then a vote for the other party is meaningless.  (Which is why I encourage those in this situation to vote for a third party and get them on the ballot.)  Every state gets atleast three votes no matter what there size is, therefore small states have magnified power.  Part of the reason why the Electoral College is still here is because these states like the Electoral College.  Do you notice how certain states are always swing states and candidates concentrate their campaigns in those states while not even bothering in others.  This leads to people not caring, not following the election, and not voting.  Every citizens vote doesn’t really seem to count with the Electoral College and it needs to change.