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Uncle Albert made me chuckle. Indeed, imagine how horrible it would be if "N.Y., Boston, D.C., Chicago, L.A., S.F." -- i.e., the places where many Americans actually live -- were allowed to play a fair and equal role in electing U.S. presidents.
Albert obviously prefers the present system, in which a Republican vote in Wyoming carries four times the electoral weight of a Democratic vote in California; campaigns are confined to a handful of "contested" states; the candidate who got the most votes in the last open election did not "win"; and the U.S. government is determined by the prejudices of a rural minority scattered across a large number of small red states.
And yes, the electoral college IS relevant to the RFK Jr. debate, because among its many flaws is the sad fact that when a national election is decided within a single state -- Florida in 2000, Ohio in 2004 -- the mechanics of stealing that election are much more feasible. Thus the electoral college, in addition to overturning the will of the people, constitutes an invitation to election theft.
