The Electoral College

I believe the Electoral College should stay and the reason being is that it's a fair, honest and staight forward way to elect a president. That way no one group of people have more power or say so than another in how we should decide who should run our country.A candidate running for president has to gain 270 electoral votes out of the 538 that exist throughout the U.S. and if no candidate receives a majority than another they 67% or six votes or its considered a run off election.Some pros of the Electoral College is it reconizes a role for the states in the selection of the president. Another pro is it encourages more person to person campaigning by candidates in big and small cities and battleground states. Another thing is that if in a contested election the recounts would be contined to a state or two instead of just doing it across the country. (that might be the case if there was a direct election of the president instead of the Electoral College.) The framers of the constitution were wary of giving power to the people to directly elect the president. Some had felt citizenry too beholden to local intrests or too easily able to believe misled information. Plus, at the time of lamps and quill pens a national election would just be too impractical. Some proposals gave pour into Congress but didn't sit well with Congress for very long because there were those who wanted true separation of new government. Still others felt that the state legislatures should decide who should be president but that would make the president too beholden to state intrests. And it wasn't until James Wilson proposed the idea of an Electoral College that the Constitutional Convention came to a compromise. In context of the Constitution the meaning of the word college in this case stands for not a school but a group of people organized in such a way towards a common goal (in this case the selection of a president.)The election of 2000 between George W. Bush and Al Gore had called the wisdom of the Electoral College system which had been the way the president had been selected ever since it had been established as the way the president would be determined into question.This was significant as well as importanr because it was the first time the supreme court got involved in an electoral decision for determining a president. The after affects of the 2000 election can still be felt through constantly and continously evolving voting machines to continuly make sure voting is consistently acurate so there's no error in the Electoral College. That's why I believe the Electoral College should stay just as it is because it's an effective way to make sure our next president is selected through an effective and through process in an honest and fair mannor.