text: Under the electoral college system voters vote not for the pesident but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president. No one is saying leave it up to the "state", the distict of columbia to decide alone who our president should be but just to let them help in narrowing it down to those who fits the qualifications we need in a good president, The person who is going to run our country. Bradford Plumer said it himself voters sometimes get confused about the electors and vote for the wrong canidate so why put the humans that always make mistakes in charge of choosing who out of "billy joe bob from the swamp" and " steve boy from the country club" to run our country. I say let the qualified pick the qualified. Its easy to say this, Bob Dole was wrong don't abolish the electoral college let it LIVE!