I agree with Julius' assessment of your terminology, Cyrus. However, your question seems to be more about the electoral college than actual representative democracy, so I'll go with that.
In my opinion, the electoral college is an antique leftover from the time in which senators were not elected by the people but by state governments. It's a system that probably made more sense in a time of very low average education and poor communication (at least by today's standards).
My biggest problem with the electoral college system is that it really takes away the power of an individual vote. This is especially true when a presidential race is close in a particular state, but it is true all of the time. If you vote for one candidate, but the other wins the popular vote in your state, even if it's just by a single vote, all of the votes for the candidate with less are essentially lost at the national level. It seems pretty silly to me that there is the potential for so many votes to get lost on the national scale.
For example, let's say that the imaginary state of TC has 1 million voters turn out on an election. If 500,001 of them vote for Aro and 499,999 vote for Scud, under the electoral college system, all of the votes of TC would go to Aro. While Aro and the people who voted for him might think that's fair, the other half of TC that voted for Scud will be pretty upset. Suppose TC has 12 electoral votes. Now, let's say a smaller state, GSD, also voted in the election. They had only 100,000 voters turn out. Scud received 70,000 of the votes and Aro go 30,000. However, GSD, being small, only gets 3 electoral votes. If these are the only states voting in the election, the electoral college would elect Aro (12-3) but the popular vote would elect Scud (569,999-530,000). Now, unfortunately, this contrived situation isn't far from the truth; more than one person has won the popular vote but lost the election. In my opinion, this doesn't seem right. If someone wins the popular vote, they should win the election.
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