text: There are fives reasons for retainging the Electoral College despite its lack of democratic pedigree. All are practical reasons, not liberal or conservative reasons. one of the reasons is, "certianly of outcome." Example, in 2012 Obama recieved 61.7% of the electoral vote compared to Romney's 51.3% of the popular votes. A tie in the nationwide electoral vote is possible because the total number of votes, 538, is an even number, but its highly unlikely.