Should we keep the electoral college?

Donald Trump won the election, but some people may ask why are people so angry? This is because Donald Trump won in the electoral college and not because of the popular vote. This victory has gotten many Americans angry and many are calling for the government to abolish the electoral college. But is it a good idea to do this? First, what is the electoral college? Well, sorry to put it this way, but you do not vote for the president. Before you go calling out tyranny, your vote still technically elects the president. Instead of voting directly for the president, instead there is a small election in each state which decides the election. Electors vote for the president based on the candidate who won the majority in their state from their state. Each state has a number of electors based on their population. So California has the largest amount of electoral votes, while small states like Maine have a very small amount of votes. Each of the votes from each state is added up and the president with two hundred seventy votes wins the presidency. Because of this system there are many arguments for and against the electoral college, but opinions really matter from state to state. The electoral college is a part of government that is very hard to change because it affects people no matter if the electoral college is abolished or not. If the electoral college stays and nothing changes there is a chance that the presidency goes to the person with the most votes and not to the popular vote, as we saw with Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Also politicians tend to have rallies in the battle states which sway to different political parties. But candidates usually wont have rallies and speeches in states that never change party like California. This is exactly what helped Trump win the election, because Hillary never spent too much time making policies that the people in Michigan and Wisconsin like. So when Trump spread ideas the long forgotten working class liked, states that were solid blue states were won by Trump. However there if the electoral college is abolished a lot more people will ignored by the presidential candidates. Around 26% of the population lives in California, New York, and Texas which means that any small state will get no attention from the presidential candidates. Mostly the big states will get attention, while all the small states get left out.  Also people in rural areas which can help influence a very close state like Florida could do nothing at all to influence an election, because 62% of the American population lives in the city. However because of the harsh conflict people living in battle states because of split democratic and republican population, abolishing the electoral college could help put an the political fighting in these states. All in all it seems very unlikely that the electoral college will be abolished anytime soon because so many states need it to get some sort of representation during the election. But as time passes and more states get populated it may be more beneficial to have only the popular vote. But always remember, if the candidate who you disliked won in your state, it just means that next time get your friends who don't vote to the polls in four years.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/electoral-college_us_582b66bee4b0aa8910bd3ca5

http://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2015/cb15-33.html