The Electoral College Needs to be Replaced

I'd first like to start out by clarifying that the point was the both Democrats and Republicans CAN Agree, my apologies. But there is support for a change in our system. Take Donald Trump, in 2012 he tweeted: "the Electoral College is a disaster for democracy." and Democratic Representative Gene Greene said: "every citizen"s vote should count in America, not just the vote of partisan insiders in the electoral college." [1] Hillary Clinton also said back after the 200 election that the system needed a change: "I believe strongly that in a democracy, we should respect the will of the people, and to me that means it"s time to do away with the Electoral College and move to the popular election of our president." [2] On your point of the age of the system, the only reason that it has stayed that way is exactly the change you stated, a constitutional amendment. The difficulty of doing so is extremely difficult, especially in this day and age. It's not usually a major political issue either, because of the abnormal result of a popular vote loser being the winner does not happen often. Does that mean the system doesn't need to be changed? Of course not! You can look to see we can get equal representation through a proportional or popular system. Next, you talk about the process, just feeding into my points. Electors being nominated by their party, at a state level, where it can be easily controlled by party leaders. And by doing a winner take all by state, it only prioritizes the bigger states because they have more votes and smaller states are left behind, not every vote would count, just the ones in Florida and Ohio. (Seriously, look at 2000, Florida literally decided an election.) The winner takes all system has also hurt the Democratic Party, empirically, take Rutherford Hayes' election, George Bush's, Donald Trump's, all losing the popular vote to a Democratic candidate but winning anyway. The state by state winner take all have hurt the Democrats, it doesn't help them. On your opinion of the people point, you can refer to my point above. Changing the Electoral College is not as popular as other issues because it only affects the present once every 4 years, and not even that, because of the popular vote and E.C. winner being the same. Also, your chart shows consistent support for changing the system when it mattered. You could see it was on a downward trend going into 2002, which meant it was a big issue in 2001, right after Bush-Gore. (If you could provide a date for when it was from in 2016 that would be great too!) "the age of the system suggests that we, the people of the nation, have not had sufficient reason to replace the system yet," Replace Electoral College with slavery. The age and tradition of slavery suggest that we don't have a sufficient reason to change it. That doesn't make sense. Even if the Electoral College doesn't need a change, age would not verify that. Many terrible prejudices were based on being passed down from generation to generation. If the people think it was sufficient, why would 50% disagree with its process 3 years after a non-competitive election (according to your chart)? Next, the point that the Electoral College also hurts your main point of its age. It's lost its purpose of protecting small states and stopping a poor decision by the general public (again, 60% of states require electors to go with its state pick). It's an outdated tradition that is no longer needed. Also, the US is a representative democracy, and the Electoral College has gone against the will of the people, and even within states, a proportional system would solve for these issues as I mentioned earlier in Round 2. Also, I'd like to mention again that Democrats and Republicans can agree that the system needs to be changed. The Red Wall is preventing Democrats from channeling their base and would have had 2 more presidents in the White House with a proportional system, and the Republicans can still hold onto their waning influence in the federal government. Donald's Trump election was a big win for Republican, but the increase of Hispanic voters and thus the Democratic Base means its unlikely to happen again. To allow equal representation for everyone, including those hidden behind huge opposing party majorities, and to have the US representative democracy be reflected in our Presidential Elections, its time for a change. [1]: https://blog.politics.ox.ac.uk... [2]: https://www.nytimes.com...