The Electoral college should remain the method of electing presidents in the United states.

I believe the electoral college should be eliminated for several reasons. My thesis is that the electoral college doesn't fully represent the people and thus is undemocratic. Firstly, presidential hopefuls attempt to get elected by attempting to beat the system. Candidates can ignore states because they feel they won't be able to win votes. Instead, they target swing states. When all is considered, this doesn't help to elect the best candidate nor does it gauge the whole countries opinion. In california, there is no reason for a republican party supporter to vote. Similarly, there is no reason for a democratic party supported to vote if they live in Texas. Their votes don't matter. In fact, the only place where anyone's vote matters are in swing states. But really, someone's opinion in Iowa matters equally with someone's opinion in New York, yet each and every person in Iowa is glorified during election time. They are heavily educated by presidential hopefuls through intense campaigning initiatives. As someone who lives in Massachusetts, I never see adds run for presidential hopefuls during the election. I see them during primaries, but not the election. Thus, Massachusetts will always vote democratic no matter who the candidate because people aren't educated on why to vote any other way. Thus, there is simply a lack of education. This happens everywhere that politicians don't think is worth their time because it isn't as good of an investment of their time. In a sense, it says that people in those states aren't as important. This is not democracy. Why is this? This happens because there isn't a popular vote. If there was a popular vote, every voter would be heavily educated on the candidates so everyone can make an informed decision instead of only the people who happen to live in "swing" states. Thus, the United States is entrenched in a perpetuating cycle of self defeating campaigning behavior in which voters never question their political leanings, and furthermore always vote based of those unquestioned leanings, leading to the election of people like George W Bush. It seems obvious that if Al Gore had gone into States that typically voted republican and showed people who they were actually voting for, it would've made a big difference. To many, Bush was simply a republican candidate. That must stop, and that is accomplished through a popular vote. All of what I said only scratches the surface. Technically, the electoral college fails as well as what the ideological problems with the electoral college are. Since the electoral votes of each state equal the number of Congressmen and Senators from that state, small states have a much larger percentage of the electoral vote than larger states. Nor does every ballot carry the same weight. In 2003, one electoral vote in Wyoming corresponded to 167,081 persons, and to 645,172 folks in California. Thus, the electoral college doesn't proportionally weigh people's votes. In fact, it is more heavily weighing people from smaller states, which in the case of Wyoming, is considerably less effected by what the federal government does than is the case of California for a multitude of reasons. Many people side with the electoral college for ideological reasons based on the assumption that the electoral college appeals to the state. This, unfortunately, isn't true.As I said in the first paragraph, most states, even the largest states, are simply ignored in the campaigning process. But additionally, candidates rarely talk about local issues. In fact, it would do very little good for the campaigning process to focus on local issues. The national election is about national issues. As it is now, the election process is about national issues, except that the only people who are considered of interest for these issues are those in battleground states. Because it is clear that the United States must be represented in it's entirety, fairly and equally, I must stand in strong negation of the pro's advocacy for maintaining the Status quo and the blatant disregard for democracy and justice that it stands for.