Abolish the Electoral College

First, this entire case is not on the con's said assumption. Please refer to the following link for more info on the reasons why we have the electoral college and the argumentation within. http://www.fec.gov... The issues are not fictitious, and are fact. All arguments promoting the electoral college are simply arguments of stagnation. They do not provide for adapting our government to meet the needs of the people. One of the explicit reasons for the electoral college was to create a buffer between the population and the election of the president. At that time, minorities and women couldn't vote either. Why? Part of the reason was that the powers that be thought that these groups did not hold the mental capacity to make rational decisions. Yes, it was the intentions of the Constitutional Congress to prevent ill informed and unsuitable voters to elect the president directly. In order to win this debate, I only need to show how the electoral college does not serve the purpose of this nation and is flawed. Allowing for a direct election would in fact fix the problems created by the electoral college. The con's argument that I am attacking the U.S. Federal System of government is invalidated, instead, I am promoting that every level of legislative and executive branch of the government be elected directly. Looking at past voting trends and logic, we can see that candidates do ignore states that are not swing states, since they already feel that a state is decided prior to the election. I live in Oklahoma, which is not a swing state. 20 miles away lies Texas. If I lived in Texas, I would receive multitudes of junk mail, radio and television ads, and possibly even a visit by the potential president. But I live in Oklahoma which is already marked as republican. Additionally, amendments to the constitution have already been proposed and nearly succeeded in the past. Abolishing the electoral college is not trying to debunk the system of government, instead change it to meet the current needs today. Stating that we should not amend and adapt our government to meet the needs of our society is against the will of our Founding Fathers. Abolishing the electoral college would actually help to eliminate the strength the political parties have over the government. A popular vote would more accurately account for all in favor of one candidate. Additionally, many people refuse to vote because they claim their vote doesn't count. If they live in a state in which they are clearly the minority (ie, a democrat in Oklahoma) their vote is a lost cause. The political machine is in full force under the electoral college! This perpetuates the political machine because it prevents other parties from being able to rise above the two main parties. Furthermore, this is not a democracy. If we had a democracy, all people with the right to vote would be able to vote on every issue facing our nation. Since this is unreasonable with the size of our nation, we instead have a Constitution based federal republic. This is why the system of government is in place. However, we allow for direct elections of every other federally elected position. Finally, while the con has attacked my case with the contentions that I am trying to be undemocratic and debunk our system of government, I have shown that instead I have shown concrete reasons why the Electoral College should be abolished. A direct election of every federally elected position is what every voting American should have a right to. Voting for the con is a vote for stagnation and the perpetuation of our voice as a nation being taken away by politicians.