The Electoral College - A Good, or Bad Idea?

Over the past year or so since the 2016 election we've heard liberals pushing for eliminating the Electoral College in the voting process because, some claim, it's unfair, undemocratic, or just plain out dated. Really? Let's examine this with facts...

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories. - Thomas Jefferson

In their infinite wisdom, the Founding Fathers of the newly formed United States created the Electoral College to ensure that each and every state in the union was fairly represented; that called a Federal Republic. While we have incorporated some aspects of a democracy, it isn't a pure one. As the old saying goes, a true democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. Yet this form of democracy is what Democrats are calling for. So, why should one or two states which are densely populated dictate the outcome of the entire country?

The following list of statistics has been making the rounds on the Internet. Is should finally put an end to the argument as to why the Electoral College is so important to our Federal Republic and makes sense.

• There are 3,141 counties in the United States.
• Trump won 3,084 of them.
• Clinton won 57.
• There are 62 counties in New York State.
• Trump won 46 of them.
• Clinton won 16.
• Clinton won the popular vote by approximately 1.5 million votes. (She continues to harp on this point alone.)
• In the 5 counties the encompass NYC, (Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Richmond & Queens) Clinton received well over 2 million more votes than Trump. (Clinton only won 4 of these counties, while Trump won only Richmond.)
• Therefore these 5 counties alone, more than accounted for Clinton's winning the popular vote of the entire country.
• These 5 counties comprise only 319 square miles of land area.
• The United States is comprised of 3,797,000 square miles of land area.
• When you have a country that encompasses almost 4 million square miles of territory, it would be ludicrous to even suggest that the vote of those who inhabit a mere 319 square miles should dictate the outcome of a national election. Yet, the Democrats do!
• Large, densely populated Democrat cities (NYC, Chicago, Los Angeles, Detroit, etc.) DO NOT and SHOULD NOT speak for the rest of our entire nation!

And... it's been verified and documented that those aforementioned 319 square miles are where the majority of our nation's problems come from.