Electoral college may be made meaninless......without a constitutional Amendment.

[url]http://nbcpolitics.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/07/9280257-mcconnell-warns-of-popular-vote-catastrophic-outcome[/url]

This my friends should scare the CRAP out of you.

If a swing state like Ohio or Virginia were to pass legislation for a "National Popular Vote" then their electoral votes would go to the national winner of the popular vote....PERIOD. This would happen even if the other candidate won a clear majority in that state.

Say in the next election that Obama won the popular vote nationally, but was beaten HANDS down in Ohio by the Republican candidate......say a LANDSLIDE. The people of Ohio sent a message that they really disliked his rotten policies. He loses by a HUGE Margin.......500,000 votes. That would NOT matter. They would reward the electors to Obama anyways because in this hypothetical situation, he won the National popular vote.

WOW.......holy WOW..............what the hell is our country coming to. This is a VERY SERIOUS breach in the trust our founding fathers put into the States.

The Electoral College exists to give every state a fair and equitable stake in an election.