Why can't a vote be a vote? Why super delegates and electoral college?

When the Founding Fathers drafted the Constitution, one of the main issues was how to properly elect a president to office. Since the Presidency is a big thing, the Founders understood that if the voting was left to the people and the people alone, the country might walk the wrong path. People's opinions are largely dictated by what they see and hear from the media. While what the media say should have some truth, it is spun so that people walk away (after watching or hearing) with a certain mindset. The Founders understood that it would be relatively easy for a corrupt individual to manipulate the minds of the voters and, figuratively, vote himself to office.

The Electoral College is a way around that problem. The popular votes (to some degree) affect who the voters of the Electoral College will vote for to be the next president. However, the voters, more properly informed, can make the controversial decision to overturn the popular vote if he/she believes that a certain person shouldn't become president based on whatever evidence. Of course this system would also have its flaws but it has worked quite decently since its inception.

Way back in the day when our founding fathers were creating our country, they realized that when voting people most likely won't know about all the candidates because news traveled slow. So they came up with the electoral college so that this would not be an issue. But i agree this is modern times and a vote should just be a vote.

The electoral college is a good system and your vote does count.

The Super Delegates is somthing that the Democrat party uses in their nomination process. It makes no sense and they will probably change it after this election.

The Electoral College is actually a decent system that forces retail state-by-state campaigning by the candidates..at least in a few key swing states. In lieu of the College - election by popular vote - candidates could simply buy commercial air time in large media markets and by-pass the voters altogether.

Amen! I have been wondering the same thing for years!! I never have gotten a straight answer...the "conservative" Republicans do not have Delegates, not for the Primary anyway...

McCain won his Party's nomination based on voters going out & voting...& we Democrats (if I remain one) are supposed to be the "liberal ones"...

I don't like to give rise to "Conspiracy Theories", but I've read that the "DNC" wants to "keep us in line"; I read that as controlling the vote; and I sure hope that it is NOT true...

I wish someone who KNOWS would explain it...someone on hard-core drugs came up with the idea...LOL!

I, for one, would love to see "a vote BE a vote"...Cheers!

Write up the Petition, I'll be 1st to sign....

Because you live in an Establishmentarian Fundamentalist Corporatocracy.

It's actually called a "Representative" Republic, in other words you don't pick the prez, people that are supposed to represent you pick for you.

The first term is more accurate though, because the current system allows the government to give you the ILLUSION of freedom and democracy, when in reality there is no such freedom and/or democracy.

The electorial college is a constitutional insurance that allows small states to have a voice.

Super delegates on the other hand are the DNC's way of acknowledging that their constituents are too stupid to nominate their candidates.

because that would be mob rule. not good.

besides, the democrat party can choose their candidate however they want. you don't have to vote for them. you can always do a write in and vote for whoever you want.

our founding fathers we careful not to for a democracy, in fact, the word democracy doesn't show up in our founding documents.

Benjamen Franklin said, "democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on whats to have for dinner, liberty is a well armed sheep contesting the vote."

our representative republic gives minorities a stronger voice, something democrats claim to defend.

@Pied Hussein Piper....got room for apprx.32 million and counting, we are boycotting the DNC if Hillary does not get the nominee and hopping on the straight talk express!

And that is how I want it, no more delegates I am so sick of them!

because when your dealing with liberals they obviously make up the rules as they go along and as for the electoral college havent you heard if it aint broke dont fix it and it aint been broke for well over two hundred years.