 electoral college or popular vote  there is a serious effort to change the way we pick our president and both republicans and democrats alike are pushing this agenda in michigan republican saul anuzis is making the case for the ldquo popular vote rdquo option to the michigan republican party in the past the party has been steadfastly against that option the founders devised electoral vote system as a check to make sure the ldquo states rdquo had a say in who became president rather than the more populous states having a greater influence for an article on what this change could mean to michigan and the rest of the states click on the following story link  http wwwmlivecom opinion muskegon indexssf 201109 stevegunnelect 19 impossible to understand impossible to understand where anuzis is coming from on this challenge to bedrock constitutional principles the article linked to is foolish and the author of it is either a democrat or not very knowledgable his comments on the founders wanting to veto popular votes or not trust the masses is wrong and offensive through our constitution the founders formed a republic form of government not a democracy where all elections except president vp votes are determined strictly on popularity votes cast in the top national election the use of the electoral college is to balance the national needs of maintaining a republic now of 50 states so that we elect a national leader the matter of balancing the republic makes sure that no one issue place group etc dominates to the exclusion of other aspects necessary to maintain a nation of out of many one people and states the result of the civil war and our entire history as one nation would have very different if it weren t for these bedrock principles it is democrats who will want to switch so that an alliance of the mega cities can overwhelm and dominate every other need and interest in the rest of the united states  electoral college popular vote  