LfS, that is beneath you. What I want is a genuine democratic republic, in which the will of the majority decides who gets to represent us in government. As I said, given the EC strongly favors Republican presidential candidates, the other party is at what we can now see is a huge disadvantage.

The EC is an old device put into the constitution to allow Southern states to have presidents elected. That includes Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe, all slave owners. The Constitution gave each slave 3/5ths of a human existence in counting for representation in the EC, even though none could vote in a presidential election. Neither could white males who owned no real estate, though their numbers were also counted. In no way was that a democratic republic, though it did get the country off to a good start and reward the most prominent advocates for independence, which was otherwise not universally desired.

We have dropped old Constitutional barriers, it's time to emasculate the EC.