The Electoral College and it's Importance

The Electoral College has been around since America was first becoming a country. The Founding Fathers wrote it into the Constitution and here it lies. Now within the last week the democratic party has been whining and complaining that "Hillary should've won because she won the popular vote" and that the Electoral College is "undemocratic".

The Electoral College makes it to where each state has a voice (which rounds out to about 20% of the electors). Which is why the Democratic Party is upset, "this means that small states have a greater voice in the presidential choice than justified by their populations," according to AEI). It also prevents candidates from campaigning in big cities instead of smaller states. Think about it, if we had the popular vote, who would campaign in Vermont, for example, if you could campaign in New York City? The Founding Fathers saw the possibility and wanted to keep the states in power and sought to remove political manipulation. As AEI argues, the Senate is just as "undemocratic" as the Electoral College. Same number of Senators and they have the voice not the people.


The Democratic Party sure has gone back and forth with their "love" and "hatred" towards the electoral college. In 2000, Al Gore and George Bush were the two candidates in the presidential race. Now Al Gore won the popular vote however, George Bush won the electoral votes. The same thing that's happening now was happening then, the democratic party was furious. However, in 2012 Obama was up against Romney. Mitt Romney won the popular vote but Barack Obama won the electoral votes. The Democratic party didn't complain whatsoever. Basically, the democratic party wants a democracy and not give anyone else a chance. The democratic party also ceases to realize that if their was no electoral college, Hillary Clinton still wouldn't of won. The popular vote was for Bernie Sanders as the Democratic Party Candidate, but the Electors decided otherwise.

The Electoral College prevents such a thing. As stated previously, if the popular vote was a thing the smaller states would have no voice. California, New York, Texas and a few others would basically vote because they'd make up 50.5% of the vote, and places like Ohio and Iowa shouldn't even vote because they'd have no say.

Thomas Jefferson himself said, "nothing more than mob rule, where fifty one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty nine" (wordpress.com). The majority isn't always right either. Which is, in fact, the same reason James Madison split of the interest groups, so there was no majority. This country was not founded on majority. In fact it was founded on a small number of rebels that were determined to get way from majority. These rebels desired freedom and rights for all, not just most. The Electoral College gives the freedom and right to all smaller states, who would have no choice in the election if set up otherwise. As "undemocratic" as I sound, I see the importance of the Electoral College and hope it stays.