So, you want to abandon state conventions and the Electoral College?

[RichardRay]

Fine, but Wyoming only has 445,000 people in it. We need some way to prevent ourselves from being turned into a re-colonized Third World country inside the borders of the United States.

If you want to go to a national popular primaries and general elections, then I'll trade you http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commerce_Clause">The Commerce Clause and the Powers Prohibited to the States from the Constitution. You'll also need to throw in the right to control land in my state: Yellowstone and Grand Teton will make us a bunch of money and the BLM leases will help, too. We can get along on our own state roads, the interstates that go through Wyoming don't do us much good, they carry traffic across the state, not to the state. Most drivers on I-80 just want to get it over with.

I'm not saying the primaries, caucuses or the EC is perfect as they are, but before you advocate for a pure popular democracy please consider what it would mean to many of us who don't live in big cities and populace states.

[NightWatcher]

1. Reeces agrees with your doggie

[Muttocracy]

2. you can keep your 2 senators but the electoral college has to go nt

[Warren Stupidity]

3. I don't quite understand how your state will get colonized

by having a direct popular election of the president. As it is you get a mighty 3 electoral votes. Nobody much is paying attention to Wyoming now, and they won't be paying much attention after the stupid undemocratic electoral college is abolished, if it ever is.

The president is not the president of 50 independent states and hasn't been since the Civil War. Instead he is the president of one nation, and ought to be directly elected by all of the citizens of that nation with each citizen's vote counting exactly as much, no more no less, than any other citizen's vote. Furthermore, given the extraordinary power we have invested in the office of the executive, the president should only be elected by a majority of those votes, a plurality should require a run off election.