Concerns that women/minorities can't win the Presidency: a good reason to end the Electoral College?

[Pushed To The Left]

Would a woman or a minority have the same trouble winning the popular vote that they would winning every state? Big cities seem to be more progressive and open to electing a female or minority President, and those cities have some pretty high numbers. I've always like the idea of the popular vote being used to determine elections for other reasons, but I think this might be yet another reason.

[Selatius]

1. The EC is an equal opportunity disenfranchisor

If you live in Mississippi and are part of the minority 40 percent that votes D, your vote doesn't count because they only look at the EC. If you lived in a battleground state, however, it would matter.

A female candidate could actually win your vote in Mississippi and win the popular vote in the rest of the country, but if she loses the EC vote, she has nothing to show for it.

Junk the EC.

This way, every state becomes a battleground state. Every vote would matter just as much as it would matter in Ohio or Florida under the current system.

[Xipe Totec]

2. Not really

A good reason to end the Electoral college, is that in the age of modern communications we can all express our opinions directly on any subject.

Therefore, we no longer need a REPRESENTATIVE democracy, where we elect a representative to vote as our proxy. we can have a TRUE democracy and simply vote on each and every issue clearly and directly, without an intermediate to vote for us. Therefore, an electoral college to vote as our proxy is no longer necessary.