Resolved: The Electoral College Should Be Abolished

Responding to opponent's main contentions first, then contentions, than newest arguments:1. Voters are informed nowadays.I have already explained how popular vote had little role in Presidential elections in my opening arguments, so I direct you all back to that. I believe that entirely refutes this argument.2a. Lack of emphasis on 'power states'The large states are represented - they have the most electoral votes. California, which houses 11.91% of the population of the United States[1], has 55 electoral votes[2], or 12.6% of the 435 electoral votes. Texas, which has 8.04% of the US population[1], has 38 electoral votes[2]. or 8.7% of the electoral vote. New York, which has 6.19% of the US population[1], has 29 electoral votes, 6.6% of all electoral votes.[2] Florida has 6.01% of the US population[1], and the same number of electoral votes as New York.[2] The main issue with all these states except Florida, a swing state, is that local politics heavily favor one party (the Democrats in California and New York and the GOP in Texas). Popular vote would not change local politics.2b. More emphasis on swing statesAmerica is basically split between Democratic and Republican, so it is natural the hardest states to win are the ones that are nearly equally split between the two parties. These states represent the attitude of America far more than the big non-swing states.2c. Third partiesGary Johnson won less than 1% of the vote and failed to gain over 3% of the vote in any state except New Mexico, where he had served as governor.[3] For all intensive purposes, he was a minor candidate and would not have gotten any more attention under popular vote.3a. 15th amendmentThis argument confuses me. First off, a candidate needs only a plurality of the vote to win a statewide election in msot states, and in all of them at the national level. The 15th amendment does not make government have to be proportional to the population (which would be pretty damn near impossible if you ask me).4. The electoral college allows room for corruptionI'm not sure how this is an issue. There have been only about 150 faithless electors, and about half of them were due to the death of a candidate. None of the other votes swung an election.[5] The popular vote arguably allows for more corruption - for example, the Democratic candidate in 1876 won the popular vote due in large part due to the supression of black voters and white Republicans in the South.[4]I do not wish to present any new contentions in this round, as I will be spending a good amount of effort cross-examining Pro in the comments. As no CX rules have been made, I propose the following: 1. CX may consist of one (1) post in the comments section per round, clearly marked as 'CX for Round Y', with Y being the round number in which the CX is for. The CX may only be related to arguments in the prior round. The CX post may address factual inaccuracies and question the opponent on his assertation. The CX may be responded to by the opponent.References:1.http://en.wikipedia.org...2.http://en.wikipedia.org...(United_States)3.http://en.wikipedia.org...(United_States)4.http://en.wikipedia.org...5.http://en.wikipedia.org...