text: What do you think about the electoral college?  In source three paragraph fifteen Richard A. Posner gives a very well put together decription of what we call the electoral college.  "The Electoral College is widely regarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be overruled by declaring the canidate who receives the most popular votes the winner." The electors are who is actually electing the president, not the people. When you vote for a presidential canidate you are really voting or a slate of electors instead.