text: To prevent the states to feel left out and to prevent an injustice such as this one, we should end the anachronism that is the Electoral College. "...The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational. The best arguments in favor of it are mostly assertions without much basis in reality. And the arguments against direct elections are spurious at best." Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO have all agreed on it at one point in time: "Abolish the Electoral College!" (Plumer).