Actually the Electoral College is all about the people, though not in the manner it has been portrayed. The older, more ignorant view, was the patronizing statement that it was created because the common voter could not be expected to really know how to vote for a proper President.

What these people have never understood, was the reason that has caused the Electral College to continue, even after the close Gore Bush contest. I can recall Hillary Clinton stating they would definitely change the Electoral College, only to be told to shut up by other Democrats, and she never spoke of it again.

Why? Why after all this bitching by ignorant voters, has absolutely nothing been done? Another Republican plot to steal the election from a Democrat? The self-knowledge by Democrats that their voters are less educated than Republicans?

Let me try a gentle cleansing rain on the subject:

The basic idea is, that in order to win an election in the United STATES, you have to campaign in each one of them, and win fifty local elections; winning on local issues as well as national ones, pressing the flesh in every state, and counting every electoral vote. If it didn't exist, as the more intelligent Democrats told Hillary after her public put-down, the Demodrats would only run in urban North areas, while the Republicans would only run in the South and West. And while that generally holds true in the general cast of a normal election, you involve the Federal candidates in the general theme of local politics.

This is especially true in two areas, the House elections, and the primaries, where at the Party's conventions, the majority of each State's delegates are awarded according to the number of Electoral electors the individual States elected. (There are other additional formulas unique to each party to add "super-delgates" and play with the minority attendance, but essentially it is the Electoral College results that determine apportionment of delegates.

Both the Bush and Gore camp knew the value of the Electoral College, and plotted their campaign strategies accordingly. You might recall the endless debates over whether Bush was spending too much time in California, or Gore too little in his home state of Tennessee. (They both lost those states). But Bush had a canny view of how it was to shake out, and if you will recall, was telling the press he had not lost Florida, even after the media had declared Gore the winner.

Thus while endless streams of ignorant Democrats bray about how the last election was "stolen" by the Electoral College system, they cannot summon the wit, will, or intelligence to state why it continues virtually unchanged to this day. Thus Hillary's ignorance was banished... How 'bout yours?