Writer defends need for Electoral College
Vox Pop
Why Electoral College?
After reading, “Time to Scrap the Electoral College,” I want to pose another view.
In 1787 our founding fathers debated over this very issue. Their decision was to approve Electoral College. This ensures equal opportunity to smaller states. Each state is given a number of representatives depending on population. The people of each state vote their preference by popular vote, then the allotted number of electoral votes are added to represent that particular state. During Hillary Clinton’s campaigning, she chose to “fly over” the states with fewer electoral votes. President Trump chose to count these smaller states as valuable. He, as a result, was rewarded with their electoral votes.
The editor is quoted as saying “It is time to consign the Electoral College to the dustbin of history.” We’ve seen the consequences of relegating our history to the “dustbin.” Our children no longer learn about our Constitution, Bill of Rights etc. The deep history of our founding fathers has all but been erased from textbooks. Our statutes denoting historical events have been defaced and torn down. Our flag, the symbol of freedom, is no longer respected.
Our national anthem and the Star Spangled Banner, are threatened to be replaced. Early textbooks from our predecessors reveal that our children’s vocabulary and knowledge of our country’s history is well on its way of being “covered with dust” and forgotten. Ironically, the statute of Marxist Vladimir Lenin remains unscathed in Seattle.
Our Republic (We are not a Democracy) ensures, with the Electoral College, that smaller states will also be represented because it assures that candidates will also campaign there. The framers of our government were concerned that misinformed, uneducated people (because of lack of proper curriculum in our schools and takeover of our mainstream media catering to leftist policies — which most people use for news) would have more power over the informed voter.
With this in mind, our Electoral College today is more pertinent than ever.
— Jan Brehm, Medford
