Elect a Change

Let's face it folks - contrary to popular thought and advertising during each Presidential candidate race, your vote does not count.  Not at all.  How do I know this?  The Electoral College tells me so.

In 1787, alongside our Constitution, the Electoral College was created.  Why was it made, you ask?  Well, quite simply because our national leaders at the time didn't think we, as a people, were educated enough to carry out an election based off the 'popular vote'.  No kidding.  Apparently, we were too stupid to choose.

Now fast forward to today - our over-stimulated, median-educated, well informed populace is still living by this fallacy of not being able to select a President.  Even though we now have a wide-spread population reaching to all corners of our nation and every nook and cranny in between, our system still says that the Electoral vote for any state may oppose the majority vote of its people, and quite possibly not accurately reflect the populace of said state.

According to the regulations that govern the Electoral College, the amount of electoral votes a state has is equal to its number of US Senators (2 for each state) and US Representatives (determined by population).  So for example: Texas has 2 US Senators and 36 Representatives for a total of 38 electoral votes.  In theory, most of us assume that our state's electoral votes are cast based off the majority vote.  However, it may not be not so.  An electoral vote can directly contradict what the people of its state have voted for.

So, now that we are a more educated, more reliable nation, why hasn't the Electoral College been changed or for that matter, eradicated?  The general explanation is that the Electoral College is too embedded in the Constitution and our government to be changed now.

A greater load of malarky I have yet to hear, folks.  This is simply not true at all.  Our Constitution currently has 27 amendments; the original 10 being the Bill of Rights, or the first amendments to be instituted all at one time.  This means the Constitution has been amended, or changed, 17 times since its inception in the late 18th century.  It can be changed as times have necessitated.

And as for government concerns?  Seriously?  I mean, really...seriously?  Our government is slowly working its way towards Feudalism, Communism, or any other government-based negative "ism" we, as a nation, do not want.  It's time to demand a change to this archaic and insulting "institution" and require our most exalted political seat (and all others for that matter) be based solely on the "Popular Vote", no matter who ends up in the chair.