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Majority of Americans continue to favor moving away from Electoral College
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The level at which the election runs is not what I am getting at.
And they don't destroy our country despite our states having a rural/urban divide. So our federal elections should be no different.
No it doesn't. If a popular vote would destroy this country because of the imbalance between rural/urban areas, then it would have already done so on a state level.
I've said it in several other places in this thread.
All votes should be counted equally.
It doesn't work perfectly.
It makes it so that if you don't live in a swing state, your vote is effectively meaningless. If you're a democrat in a heavy republican state, then your vote will never go towards supporting your candidate of choice. If you're a republican in a heavy republican state, the same applies. If you're a republican in a heavy republican state, your vote also doesn't do shit, because your state was going to vote republican anyway. Unless you're in a swing state, the current system basically ignores you.
It also makes it so presidential candidates only ever cater towards swing states, and the cities within those swing states. All the rest of the states are basically ignored.
The electoral collage prevents third party candidates from ever having a chance because it is inherently a FPTP system, which inherently biases a two party system, which is a huge part of why our country is so fucked right now.
And on top of all of that, there have been several elections in which the candidate with the most votes has lost. That is a broken system.
You didn't ask for a syllogism.
Then it is a terrible system. I don't care what synonym for bad you think is most accurate here. The electoral college is inferior.
The founding fathers were not gods. They intended for the constitution to change over time as things become outdated, and this is one of those things. The president elected president should most accurately represent the people, and we don't get that with the current system.
This is a separate tangent, so I won't bother addressing it.
We are a democratic republic.
Democratic - we vote
Republic - for representatives
This is grade school levels of understanding that you are missing out on.
https://www.npr.org/2022/09/10/1122089076/is-america-a-democracy-or-a-republic-yes-it-is
It ain't the electoral collage that got us here.
An electoral college doesn't have anything to do with allowing changes on a whim, or moveing slowly and methodically. All it is, is a way of counting votes. Counting the votes in a more accurate method doesn't change the speed of the process. And you can still have checks and balances under a popular vote.
Are you joking, or are you actually this misinformed/malicious/mislead?
Never said it did.
He won because of the electoral collage, because of how it forces a two party system. Joe Biden is the result of your oh so fond electoral college. If we had something that actually elected officials that we all like (see STAR voting), Joe Biden would never have become president.