Various states, small states for the most part, have recently begun a trend of trying to move their citizen-voters away from the tried and proven method of the Electoral College when electing the president. To this point in our collective history the Electoral College has been employed to guarantee that no one large state, with a large population (or a coalition of several states) can 'control' who the eventual president will be in any given election year. The Electoral College was and, is meant to give the much larger states like New York or California equal representation in relation to even the smallest states like a Rhode Island or Alaska.

If as an example of a small state my use of Alaska confused you, then you are exactly the type of voter the opponents of the Electoral College are seeking the support of. Alaska of course is the nations largest stae but because the number of Electoral Delegates a state is assigned are based upon the official census figures, the great state of Alaska actually gets one fewer delegate to the EC than the great state of Rhode Island. The discrepency was just another reason to use Rhode Island as a comparitive example even though there were many other states that receive the same three delegates as Alaska.

To just be an opponent of the EC isn't good enough however, there must be an alternative plan and, this group is a proponent of something New & Different. The new system would of course be that of the Popular Vote/ Majority Rules avenue for 'selecting' our president but to impose this alternative system the backers of the plan must first convince folks living in smaller states that they are under-represented and their votes "don't really count". Nothing could be farther from the truth and these hucksters know it. They know to implement a Popular Vote of the Majority as a means for selecting the president will in truth dis-enfranchise the voters they are in the process of convincing otherwise. But that is their dirty little secret.

A concerted effort in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan and, California will pretty much seal any deal for the Democrat Liberal/Socialist candaidate. The rest of the country, the farm belt, bible belt, sun belt will all just have to get used to the new system as they get belted time after time with whatever candidate the new one party system decides to hold a coronation for. It will surely be a system that any reasonable person can see will lead to a totalarian style government. A dictatorship of party, if not of and by an individual.