The continuing comments pertaining to the effectiveness of the Electoral college in this day and age suggests to me that more than a few of my fellow citizens have either just woke up from a very deep sleep or they reside in a garden of Apathy and Ignorance.

Our Democratic Republic should be viewed as hazardous equipment which we citizens must possess knowledge of functionality and purpose to remain a nation of self governed. 

It has been said if this Democratic Republic of the self governed is destined to ultimately fail, it will fail from within.  A failure by the self governed themselves.