The electoral college should be abolished

Firstly, You have given a scenario where 10 friends go out to eat, but can't decide between Taco Bell and McDonald's. The eventual outcome makes no sense in terms of connecting it to the electoral college. The vote among the ten friends is purely democratic. With the outcome of going to McDonald's with a vote of 2, is unrealistic, because there were no appointed representatives in your argument. Now, I'm not saying that the next time you and your buddies meet up and vote for something you should have third-party representatives to make the final call. Of course not, it would be insane. With such a small population it is easier to have a pure democratic voting system. However, when the population is increased to over 300 million, that is a different story, but I will elaborate on that later. In the scenario you gave me, you expanded to encompass the presidential election. The main issue in this is that you have taken a sample population of 10, and then expanded it to 30 million, and then changing the outcomes to percentages. This is not comparable to your first statement because you didn't give population totals on the voting outcome. Now, back to my original statement, The population of the United States is roughly 300 million. Previously you stated that: "The purpose of establishing the electoral college was because the Founders were scared of a single man (or woman) influencing public opinion as a whole, being elected president, and becoming a dictator. They feared that a political agenda could easily overcome more than 50% of the population, so they created the electoral college to give everyone a fair and equal representation in the election." Personally, I would argue that it was fairer to have a purely democratic voting system during this time. The reason, lower population. During the 1700's obviously, popultion was lower and more centralized, thus giving the popular vote, the winning vote. As the population of the United States grew the democratic vote would become less convenient. This was under the Articles of Confederation. The Articles of Confederation allowed the government to be run by a purely democratic system. With that, however, it was impossible to get anything done, such as amend the Articles. In order to add amendments to the Articles of Confederation, the Representatives would have to vote unanimously. This rarely happened, and thus the information/ powers granted to the Representatives was outdated and useless. This is where the Constitution comes into place. The Constitution was drafted and ratified by the states, making the United States a Democratic Republic, adding traditional Republican political systems into the Democratic system that we had at the time. To answer your last point, How is the Electoral College fair? As I have mentioned before, the Electoral College is dictated by population totals. Like I said, if the majority vote for one party in a state is 2/3, that political party wins that state, and its electors. It is still a democratic system, just transferred to the state level. Your examples are collectivizing the voting population, but it is important to look at how the Electoral College works, not on the national level, but the state level. If you look at it this way, it is fair. In short, this whole argument boils down to the governmental system of the United States. You call for the abolition of a political system that has been in place for 239 years. You previously agreed that it would be too difficult to transfer power to a pure democracy thus proving my point correct saying : "I agree that it would be difficult to reform the electoral college system into a pure democratic system, but it is much simpler, easier to understand, easier to carry out, and just straight up fair." Let it be noted that my opponent still has not given any evidence to support why the Electoral College system should be abolished, and how the governmental change would impact the people. Thank you for debating this topic with me, and I wish you the best of luck. I leave it to the voters to decide the outcome of this debate.