So... Election 2012
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"The electoral college i think is an issue in the sense of not allowing anyone out of the 2 party dictatorship. Founding fathers always had an issue with the voting system and were not happy with it."
The electoral college and many other of those weird structural concessions revolved around the notions of slavery. It was the only way to unite the aristocratic, slave/agrarian based minority elites in the South with the middle class artisan & finance culture of the North.
We had a war about it in fact. We got rid of slavery, but the structural bits that allowed a minority land based aristocracy to wield equal political weight as more populous states stuck around and we're still paying the price. The tools to allow a monied elite to control & influence government beyond it's actual punching weight are mostly structural artifacts from the poisoned compromise over slavery.