I have seen California senators pushing federal assault weapons bansAnd that ' s why the Senate exists . To give the smaller states more power in government . Most of us here think the 2 nd Amendment is obsolete and the idea of gun ownership barbaric , but the Senate acts to check our ability to impose that on flyover country . That is fair and that is fine , and we don ' t throw a hissy fit over that because that ' s how the government was designed to work . The Electoral College is different . You can ' t give the presidency to the guy who got 2 million less votes . It ' s ridiculous . Why should my vote for Romney be essentially muted by the liberal idiots around me who think free college is a basic right ? Why should my vote for Clinton count for less than some hick who would rather see this country and economy crashburn just so he can keep his AR 15 ?