Originally Posted by SecretMethod70

The electoral college is a very GOOD idea. Ask the majority of people who understand it and political statistics regarding the effect of the outcome of the election. Some of the reasons why I have posted in a thread about it here. Yes, it has problems, but there is nothing better that anyone has come up with. You think 3rd parties would still support the electoral college if it were such a bad idea? It's the reason Perot got 0 electoral votes despite nearly 20% of the popular vote, yet most 3rd parties still support the existence of the electoral college.

What needs to change has nothing to do with the electoral college and everything to do with how we count votes. That's why, rather than fight against the electoral college, most third parties support an alteration in how we count votes to something such as Instant Runoff Voting or Approval Voting.