text: People do actually believe in this system of voting though, hard to believe, I know, but Richard A. Posner's "In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President" gives us a pretty good reason of why they should. Richard explains to us the method of how a larger state with a large population, which would have a larger popular vote, has more weight than a smaller state with a smaller population and a smaller popular vote. He also tells us how there will always be an outcome, no matter what. Like how Obama recieved 61.7% of the electoral vote and 51.3% of the popular vote. Cutting it a bit close there? Enough of that percentage of popular votes lost during the "winner-take-all' method could change the election of the president.