text: I feel as if popoular votes will benefit the region in many ways. But starting on the residents of other regions are likely to feel disenfranchised- to feel that their votes do not count, that the new president will have no regard for their intrests, that he really insnt their president. If I wee presidnet i would want everyone to feel welcome and wanting to listen to what I have to say. Not saying that they would all like my decisons but I would want them invloved, I beileve every president should want their citizens involved and do be able to stay up to date. Statistics show that it has been argued that the Electoral College method of selecting the president may turn off potential voters for a canidate who has no hope of carrying their state. " The founding fathers esatblished it in the Constitution aas a comprimise between election of the president by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens".