Primaries presuppose a partisan election anyway , you know . The culprit here is a combination of party elites and tactical voting the party fields whoever they feel like and then the people vote for whoever they ' re convinced is more likely to win so that the other scary guy doesn ' t , rather than for someone they ' d actually like to see in office . Abolishing the Electoral College doesn ' t really help with that problem at all for that you need something like Instant Runoff Voting , and the ability for anyone to run in their own name nationwide without requiring party endorsement . But that would require a countrywide electoral reform , which further presupposes actually defining the election process properly . I was appalled to learn how many of the things we would consider as crucial questions are simply undefined in the US presidential election . So you folks have a lot of work ahead of you . While you ' re at it , could you actually go ahead and act on that no taxation without representation thing ? I ' m told that it ' s a sufficiently crucial moral principle that it justifies treason and rebellion .