shouldn ' t that be fucking obvious to a journalist ? <| sep |> The entire federal government is designed to be a group of states working together . And it is . This is what congress and the senate is . Changing the executive office to be popular vote does not change this or diminish anybody ' s power to control federal policy . We do not live in a democracy . We do , its a democratic republic . Its a form of democratic rule . Nobody has a pure democracy so saying a democratic republic is not a democracy is arguing over semantics . Pure democracy is largely impossible just as pure communism is impossible . Big states are represented more , but statehood matters , as it absolutely must . But they aren ' t in EC , the EC disproportionately represents smaller states more than big states . Changing the electoral college is the rough equivalent of passing amendments eliminating the presidency . Core changes make the whole document untenable . Complete nonsense . The Executive office is designed to have an influence on policy dictated by congress and the senate . Removing EC doesn ' t affect congress or the senate which is where the real political power of the country is meant to reside and does reside . These two houses are controlled by states which are proportionally represented by the people in those states . All we are talking about here is saying that the tone of policy passed by congress and the senate should reflect the tone of the population and not 10 states but the entire population .