The Electoral College: Yes! (Score 1)

If there is no electoral college, the largest cities in the US will effectively control the election. Or the three or five largest States. The rest of us would not count.
      With Presidential campaigns running at about $1 billion, and roughly 1% of the population controlling 99% of our wealth, who actually makes it to the November election is also a problem for most of us.
      Bernie Sanders and our President-elect seem to have bucked this last problem. The Fourth Estate helped both of them, I suppose, although with vastly different tactics being employed by the each. Both used social media very effectively. showing that the Fourth Estate has changed!
      Another point is that all those polls never got it right, did they? So maybe we poor, supposedly disenfranchised voters do get a say after all. Or maybe hackers got away with it . I know I got it wrong. I thought Hillary would win 35 states. Most elections have been a choice between the lesser of two evils, but personally, this time there sure was not much of that "lesser" part.
      I think the Electoral College should remain. We are a Republic, not a democracy. States Rights and all that! Oh, and no, California cannot secede. Remember, our new President-elect is from New York! But as I live in a town of under 5000 souls located in The Natural State, I can always hope that CA, NY, & TX go away. Go CANYTXit!