text: Next, The Electoral College has a few things wrong with it. In 2000, Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the presidency to George W. Bush because Bush recieved 271 electoral votes to Gore's 266 electoral votes. Over 60 percent of voters would perfer a direct election to the kind we have now. When voting you don't even get to vote for the president. You vote for a slate of electors. It would be nice to actually be able to vote for who you want to be president. The Electoral College is unfair, outdated and irrational.