I would love to comment your post... Because I do honestly think the system is stupid.

However, you kind of highlighted the stupid areas, so there is really no need to:)


I will however write something for the trolls.

A)
Electoral voters can commit "infidelity" and not vote for the same candidate as their district they represent did
This is not very democratic, is it? I mean, The word is based on the old greek tradition, this rule goes completly against this tradition... Am I wrong?


B)
it was written in to allow final veto power by the landowning elite to make sure that the "uneducated rabble" didn't vote themselves out of being a democracy by voting themselves in a popular dictator over and over
Does not the constituation say no one can be president for more than two terms (8 years)?

So is this not a moot point?

C)
My cynical answer is, the major parties have adapted to this and all of their strategies revolve around it. I'd go further and say the Republicans are at a marked disadvantage carrying what looks like "most of the country" on a blue vs. red map... but they're largely the unpopulated, large, sparsely developed states in the center of the country. Population centers and major cities and industrialized areas TEND to lean blue.
Meaning a hillbillys vote is worth more than a Yale students?
Interesting form of voting system...

Again: I wrote interesting because these boards have rules about language used.