I completely agree with this , I ' m not a super fan of the guy and I do find him a bit annoying to be honest but someone made this point to me earlier in the year and the closer I look at it I have to agree that we ' re just mocking a guy who needs some help . <| sep |> There ' s like 5 left , for Sunday . $ 20 iirc , but it ' s reasonably priced for the performance . <| sep |> If you look at a map of all of the colleges in the US most of them are in VA and more so on the east coast . Plus VA is exactly like NJ except there no taylor ham or really good bagel <| sep |> No . It ' s like failing a class , but saying I got the highest grade on the test . While it ' s nice you got the highest grade once , the full scope of your work is what determines the outcome . The thing about the Electoral College is that the founding fathers put it into place specifically to keep any one region from being able to overtake all the others . At the time it was written , the fear was that the southerners were going to outpace the north in growth and be able to make the entire country slaveholders . There was a ridiculous amount of back and forth about representation because of population differences and this is how we ended up with two houses one that is represented by population and one that is strictly 2 representatives per state , no matter the size . This was done , in the same spirit as the electoral college , to limit any one geographic area from tearing the rest of the country down . It was all incredibly well thought out over the course of about 4 months . People keep citing the Federalist Papers , but the thing is , the Federalist Papers aren ' t legal , binding text . They were propaganda to stir up support for the Constitution . Not everything in there is totally accurate for example , Federalist # 84 lays out the argument for why we shouldn ' t have a Bill of Rights . For real . We are a confederation of states , not a populous , direct democracy . That ' s not what we ' re founded on . I ' ve lived in red states , and I ' ve lived in blue states , and it sucks , but it ' s still a pretty damn good system .