They started off as a cheap Android phone company , but I think they want to expand their business to more quality phones , like the Nexus 6 p <| sep |> rVACsucks got one for you guys <| sep |> You ' re saying undemocratic like that ' s selfevidently bad . The Founding Fathers feared direct democracy of the bare individual and built much into our system to restrain and temper it through mediating structures . The electoral college guarantees , for example , that one highly populous state or region doesn ' t elect the president time after time to the detriment of other States . States whose people continually saw the presidency going to a majority concentrated somewhere else . would frankly have a pretty legitimate grievance for wanting to seek selfdetermination as a separate nation . I mean , just look at the map of which counties voted red and blue . If the Coasts were determining the presidency due to total population majority . vast parts of the interior of the country might start feeling like Hmm . maybe it would make more sense if we weren ' t bootstrapped to them . Basically it addresses an issue that is in some interesting ways similar to the problems with gerrymandering it requires that there is geographical distribution in the support for the president , rather than a concentrated majority being able to rule over everyone else . You ' ll note historically that the popular vote usually does still win , but the electoral college system requires that majority to be more spread out among the states , which overall in our history has probably been great for legitimacy and national unity .