Electoral College

What are your thoughts on the electoral vote? Is it a fair system?

No, I think that it's unfair. It doesn't always represent the people's choice. Take the 2000 election for example. Gore won the people's vote, but Bush won the most electoral votes, so he won. That makes people not want to vote b/c they feel like their vote doesn't make a difference. But yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyy Obama won! Isn't the world happy????? They should be. Also, I feel like a candidate's stand on issues they have no control to change IS NOT a good nor valid reason to vote for a person. I seriously can't believe people are actually going to disregard the state of the economy, disregard how a certain candidate's policy may have a negative effect on people other than themselves, and vote for a person who dislikes something they dislike even though this person has absolutely NO control to change it. Omg, c'mon man.