...it, it was instituted as a hedge against POC having votes that counted.

history! All of our votes needs to be counted.

delegates that can basically change how I voted.

The Pukes are totally using it to their advantage.

foreseeable future.

Maybe if Democrats take Presidency and Congress and the vast majority of states, it will be repealed. Until then, we gotta vote.

Get rid of it.

If you can't summon up 2/3 of the states to do that, then lift the artificial cap of 435 reps to make it closer to fair.

Also add DC and Puerto rico as states
Add more justices to the SCOTUS
Elect a Democrat and a democratic Senate and get this shit done.

https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/electors

“When the voters in each State cast votes for the Presidential candidate of their choice they are voting to select their State's electors.”...
...” There is no Constitutional provision or Federal law that requires electors to vote according to the results of the popular vote in their States. Some States, however, require electors to cast their votes according to the popular vote.”...
...” During the general election your vote helps determine your State’s electors. When you vote for a Presidential candidate, you aren’t actually voting for President. You are telling your State which candidate you want your State to vote for at the meeting of electors. The States use these general election results (also known as the popular vote) to appoint their electors. The winning candidate’s State political party selects the individuals who will be electors...”

As for me, very opposed to the EC.

Like so many other things it is a remnant of the slavery situation and should have gone when slavery did.

No country in the world would put a person in office who lost the vote. It is profoundly anti- democratic and like the rest of the antiquated measures in our Constitution (largely protecting slavery) it needs to go.

I can't believe there are DUers defending this anti- democratic nightmare

It should be the popular vote that elects the President. Period.

KY...........

Antiquated. Does not represent the "Will of The People."

In addition to the arguments other posters have made, it depresses voter turnout in all but swing states.

But I don’t see how it happens