Ernest A. Hamm Jr. - You're absolutely right. The "but we're a democracy and majority rules folks" fail to understand that the United States was designed as a constitutional republic, NOT a democracy. We elected the president with 51 state-wide popular elections. This gives every state a voice in the selection of the only branch of government that the entire country picks.

The Founders did that deliberately. You can read their notes from the convention in a book sometimes called the Anti-Federalist Papers. The smaller population states worried that they would have no say in the election of the president and so the convention devised a way to assure that they would always have a say.

These people act like this is something new when in reality it has been around for 240 years. It's not old-fashioned and outmoded. It is a hallmark of a republic. Switzerland has something similar. The national popular election is a media myth. We are a republic with democratic features, not a democracy.