The Electoral College ...to be or not to be

It’s that time again in our nation's history. The time when pundits and political armchair quarterbacks begin to call for the end of the Electoral College.
It is easy to understand the emotion behind the call for a popular vote to elect our President. Everywhere you look today there are bumper stickers claiming our current President did not win the 2000 election. Such hysteria is typical of the far left. As always, their hysteria is based on a complete and total disregard for the facts.
Today in the U.S. a total of nine states contain more than 50% of our nation's population. By winning only those nine states in a popular vote, a Presidential candidate can write off the other forty-one states. This means a total of forty-one out of fifty states, or 82% of our nation's states, would have no voice in who becomes President.
The founders of our nation were far wiser than the contemporary critics of today. Men like John Adams, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry knew a thing or two about human nature. They knew that electing a President by way of a popular vote would result in the same tyranny they fought so hard to remove themselves from: the tyranny of a few ruling the many. This always results in the destruction of liberty.
If tomorrow the Electoral College were eliminated, those of us who live in the forty-one least populated states would become subservient to those who live in the nine most populated states. The Electoral College ensures that the person who becomes President must first win a majority vote in a majority of the states, thus ensuring that all states have representation. This also forces each Presidential candidate to campaign in all fifty states.
When we consider the 2000 Presidential election, it is easy to see that George W. Bush was the clear winner, winning thirty of fifty states. That is 60% of our nation's states. That is the only majority that matters. If the shoe were on the other foot and Al Gore won thirty of fifty states - the principle behind the Electoral College would still hold true.
The founders of our nation should be praised once again. The Electoral College system has stood the test of time and in the process, ensured that a man, who won only twenty of fifty states in the year 2000, did not become President. That is a brilliant system of checks and balances at work.