The Electoral College provides a balance of power between states with large populations and states with smaller populations. Without it, presidential candidates would only campaign in the five largest states and ignore the smaller states. More importantly, there would be an incentive for the party in power to allocate funding to where they can get the most votes. The Electoral College has worked fine for 250 years; leave it alone.
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Letter: Electoral College still works
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