Dennis Prager argues the Electoral College protects state interests against a national popular vote. He uses Montana and California as examples of how a popular vote system would erase regional differences and leave smaller states unrepresented.
I think all of us know the Electoral College needs to go, he said. We need a national popular vote, but that's not the world we live in, end quote. We are a representative republic, a constitutional representative republic, which means we absolutely choose through the act of democracy the leaders that we want to represent us in Congress, in the White House. These elected positions are done through the democratic process, but we choose people to represent us. And guess what? If I live in Montana, I'm gonna choose somebody who's gonna represent me and the way I live my life. I cannot expect somebody who lives in California, in Los Angeles or San Francisco, to understand any of my needs here. That's why we have, that's why we are a representative republic, and it's why we have an Electoral College, where the representatives of that state, the electors chosen to go to Washington and say, this is the person that we have chosen that we think best represents us.
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