text: In Defense of the Electoral College:Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President by Richard A. Posner it tells that "There is pressure for run-off elections when no candidate wins a majority of the votes cast; that pressure, which would greatly complicate the presidential election process, is reduced by the Electoral College, which in variably produces a clear winner." An example of this stated in the article is "Nixon in 19680and clinton in 1992 both had only a 43 percent plurality of the popular votes, while winning a majority in the Electoral College". Avoiding these types of things is very important. If we didnt have this method we would still have to come up with some sort of method so that thing like run-offs don't happen. However, some people disagree with the electoral college because they feel that they aren't really voting for the candidate, it still needs to be used because to many thing can happen such as ties and run-offs that we would need to figure out in the long run.