Has the time come to abolish the Electoral College???

SFC Erin Barnett - You are correct.....NOW..... but as the ranks of the "needy and greedy" grow...... as we increasingly reward failure and punish success..... a day will come when only democrats will be elected.....and the nation will self destruct

Are people seriously arguing that it's unfair that there are more people in cities, and thus they get more votes?

Only the people in the big cities.

PO2 Peter Klein, I know that this entire topic is old news now, but this graphic really does a good job of explaining the electoral college and the popular vote. We'll have for the next presidential election! MCPO Roger Collins MAJ Paul Bacak SSG Jim Laning

I truly didn't understand that for awhile, but even though I disagree how it's setup, it does provide an ultimate protection. It does force focus on distribution. Maybe it should be amended slightly.

Original intent to keep the landed gentry and urban people to make serfs of the country people. Still works well.

CPT (Join to see) - It does not need to be fixed(amended) or replaced or rescinded. It is designed to give each state a voice equal to the number of Representatives and Senators they have in Congress which currently has a total of 538 nation wide. Those electoral vote usually go the same way as the majority of the voters in your individual states vote. It seems to me that it is working exactly as it was and still is working just as it was designed. I seem to recall reading that Trump won the majority of the states individually and the majority of the popular vote by a margin of almost 700,000 votes. Pray tell what needs to be amended. If you are not happy in this Constitutional Republic that has stood the test of time (well over 200 years) there are plenty of "Democracies" available to you world wide. You don't need to fix something that ain't broke. How many other countries have lines of people waiting and hoping to immigrate to them? This nation has always been a beacon of freedom and hope but unfortunately it seems to be dimming now.

Equal voice for every state regardless of its size.

Actually, TX should not even be included in this list. TX has gone red since 1980 or so. The entire west coast (CA, OR, WA) goes blue every time without fail. Most of the northern portion of the east coast goes blue every time (Maryland north into NY and to Maine). Virginia has gone blue for the first time in a long time - mainly because of the increase of minority population. Usually, the Rust Belt states (Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan) go blue, as does Wisconsin and Minnesota because of the Union vote. Of those five, four went red this time (Minnesota remained blue). In the past, nearly everything between the coasts and below the Ohio River was referred to as "Flyover Country" - our votes and opinions didn't matter because, as individual states, we don't carry the weight of a New York of California (population-wise). THAT is the reason for the Electoral College - to ensure that each state gets a fair shot at input into the election results.

MAJ Gary Davis - one of the easiest-to-understand explanations I've read.

These areas are considered to be Rust Belt states. There is heavy Union influence in these states and Unions always supports the Democrats. But, outside of the major cities where the Unions are, the overwhelming vote in the rural areas and small towns went red this time and voted Republican. My guess is that they are, like most people that usually voted Democrat but now found themselves voting Republican, fed up with the direction of the country.

MAJ Gary Davis - I'm from Minnesota. And MN is notoriously Democratic run. My father used to get so frustrated with his Dad, who would only vote Dem, because "the Dems care about us". That has been changing for years and years, but Granddad wouldn't see that. My father used to say "If the devil jumped up on a tree stump and yelled "I'm a Democrat!", Grandpa would vote for him." I always thought that was kind of ridiculous, but in the past three election cycles, I've heard so many people say "you have to vote for Obama because he's black. If you don't, you're a racist" and this time with Hillary "If you don't vote for her, you're a sexist!" Whaaaa?

MSgt Kerry Lundy - Discredited by who, Breitbart? Please give me a freaking break. All the votes haven't even been counted yet.

Thank you for doing this Act of kindness. Sure would be interesting to see how many people did vote for either candidate.

SGT Willaim Carmichael -Because many states do not even count ansentee ballots if they number less than the margin of victory, you will never know the actual results down to the individual vote.

That is a common falsehood. All absentee ballots get counted, whether the race in a given state is tight or not. It just sometimes takes a week or two to be completed.

From vote.org: "Yes, all votes are counted, whether they're cast in-person or by absentee ballot. It is a common misconception that absentee ballots are only counted during very tight races."

From the Federal Voting Assistance Program: "All ballots submitted according to State laws are counted in every election. The media often will report the projected outcome of the election before all of the ballots are counted. In a close election, the media may report that the outcome cannot be announced until after the absentee ballots are counted. However, all ballots, including absentee ballots, are counted in the final totals for every election, and every vote (absentee or in-person) counts the same."

Concur, LTC Joseph Gross!

As I was scanning through this just now, I was thinking exactly the same thing...

Not all of is feel that way.