No more electoral votes!

So if you have ever watched the Presidential election or will be in 2012, or whatever year there is an election after you read this, why is there still an electoral voting system. Really who cares which state has a larger population, that only really proves that if you are part of a bigger gang that you can override the majority.

There is a popular vote and that is the actual number of votes tallied from all the voters. This seems to be the best way of picking the President. Think about it, if 160 million people vote for nominee A and 165 people vote for nominee B, then nominee B should win, even if the electoral has nominee A ahead.

Yes, based on statistics, the winner of the popular vote also wins the election through the electoral sytem, but the margins of victory are much slimmer by the popular vote and not the electoral vote system. Although recent history does have an exception to this. In 2000, Gore won the popular vote, but lost the election. No matter which way you feel about this, it is an example of a possible major error in the voting system.

Another example of the difference in perceived margins of victory is in 1968, Nixon beat Humphrey 301 to 191 in the electoral system, but only won the popular vote by about 500,000 votes out of approximately 63 million votes. While 500,000 is a lot of votes, not by percentage.

Why the popular vote, I feel that the popular vote gives Americans in every state the feeling that their vote counts. If you live in Oregon, California, or any of the other states that always seem to vote Democrat, then you do not feel like your vote matters, and that to me is the most important part of voting. Everyone should feel their vote counts and I think we would have a better voter turn out by giving the popular vote the final say.