Reasons to Keep the Electoral College

The electoral college was originally in place by the founding fathers in order to have "enlightened and respectable citizens" as elected by the state to represent and vote on the president and vice president. There is much controversy over the electoral college's validity now, and especially post-2016 election where the democratic candidate Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, but republican candidate Donald Trump won through the electoral college.

There was outcry and uproar, but many of the people criticizing the electoral college seemed to have little idea what it is and why it is a necessary role in the United States Government elections.

I do not believe the electoral college to be out of date, if anything it's just as important now with mass-media as it was during the early days when information dissention was limited. With the ever-growing population, and condensation around large cities (i.e. Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago), there will be a numerable majority of people who want the same things, and therefore vote for the same people (in this case, most commonly the democratic party). The issue arises is that these people tend to live in an urban bubble, and beyond their immediate sight of issues as it pertains to themselves and their own communities, they seem to have little idea of the so-called "fly-over" America. With this in mind, if the electoral college were to be scrapped or reformed in such a manner that would cater to these small, heavily populated hot-spots, a large portion of the USA would find themselves shrugged off for their needs, or forgotten.

And when the government starts playing to only a few major metropolitan cities, everything else seems to start falling apart, and groups and states get overlooked. With this in mind an argument frequently given (at least in my experience) is that because information is so quickly spread and knowledge is on hand nowadays, then the population should be able to make their own vote- by the majority. Yet, this is balanced on the proposition that all the knowledge divulged through the information superhighway of online is true and sound. There is no question to me that the electoral college should be maintained, lest the United States sheds its constitutional republic in favor for direct democracy- as it is not one.

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