The Electoral College : An Archaic and Obsolete Institution? The election of the President and Vice-President is the most highly anticipated and prestigious election of our Republic. It is difficult to find another election that could possibly compare in importance and popularity as that of the presidential election. This election encompasses by far the greatest electorate and the most direct importance to this huge electorate. It is a four-year anticipation in which hundreds of millions of …showed first 75 words of 1354 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1354 total…as tenable as this piece of paper. However, until major support rallies behind an option for change the system will remain inherently un-democratic. The absolute best procedure to adopt is that of direct election. It is at the heart of all American democratic philosophy. It satisfies all that is desirable in a presidential election in contemporary times, which are profoundly different desires than those of the Constitutional Convention, but still adhering to the same ideals.