Rosie O'Donnell Doesn't Understand THIS

and how about um we get rid of the Electoral College does that anybody like that anyone why is this so important because the system encourages Coalition building and National campaigning in order to win a candidate must have the support of many different types of voters from various parts of the country winning only the South or the Midwest is not good enough you cannot win 270 electoral votes if only one part of the country is supporting you but if winning were only about getting the most votes a candidate might concentrate all of his efforts in the biggest cities or the biggest states why would that candidate care about what people in West Virginia or Iowa or Montana think but you might ask isn't the election really only about the so-called swing States actually no if nothing else safe andet states are constantly changing California voted safely Republican as recently as 1988 Texas used to vote Democrat neither New Hampshire nor Virginia used to be swing States most people think that George W bush won the 2000 election because of Florida well sort of but he really won the election because he managed to flip one state which the Democrats thought was safe West Virginia its four electoral votes turned out to be decisive no political party can ignore any state for too long without suffering the consequences every state and therefore every voter in every state is important the Electoral College also makes it harder to steal elections votes must be stolen in the right state in order to change the outcome of the Electoral College with so many swing States this is hard to predict and hard to do but without the Electoral College any vote stolen in any Precinct in the country could affect the national outcome even if that vote was easily stolen in The Bluest California Precinct or the reddest Texas one the electoral college is an ingenious method of selecting a president for a great diverse Republic such as our own it protects against the tyranny of the majority encourages Coalition building and discourages voter fraud our Founders were proud of it we can be too I'm terara Russ for prer University