by Lady Macbeth
According to Bruce Bartlett in November of 2000, �polls have consistently shown large majorities of Americans favoring direct election of the president over the Electoral College.� So, you see, even the majority of the populous want direct election to happen. However, no one is doing anything about it. According to a government site, �the awareness of how indirectly the people of this country elect their president comes as a shock to most people.� Even the government knows about this, and is not taking action in giving the people what they want. �The candidate who wins the most popular votes in an election gets all of the state's electoral votes� stated Ben White from the Washington Post. So basically, forget all of the other people who voted for the opposing candidate. That side of the popular vote isn�t represented by the state. But who cares, right? Well, we do! Our voting right altogether can be taken away because the popular vote is not embedded in the constitution at all. We need to take action and do something about it!
Let�s take a trip back in time, all the way back to 1823. �I have ever considered the constitutional mode of election, ultimately by the Legislature voting by States, as the most dangerous blot in our Constitution, and one which some unlucky chance will some day hit and give us a pope and antipope.� Thomas Jefferson said in a letter to George Hay, Jefferson referring to the Electoral College. One reason the founding fathers had the Electoral College put in the Constitution was because there was limited communication with many states and they wanted to make sure that candidates everywhere in the nation were considered. Well, today there are TV�s, radios, computers, cars for transportation, and all other modern modes of communication that make it easy for everyone to know who is up for election and what their opinions and policies are.
Everyone knows what�s going on and who is for what now, and if they don�t, it is because they don�t want to know. We should be able to choose who we want to be elected. The people of this country aren�t Incompetent. If we really want to elect someone, we will, and if we don�t, we won�t. Freedom of choice, it�s that simple.
So, do you see? There are many reasons the Electoral College should be demolished and direct vote by the populous brought to action. Everyone should get a say in the elections. We should be the ones to elect our representatives, not people we don�t even know. So, fight for your freedom, fight for your rights, fight for your direct vote!