What I know about the electoral college would fit in a thimble with room left over. The only time anyone gives it a thought is when we elect a president, and usually not even then unless one candidate gets the popular vote and the other wins the electoral points. As was the case in this year's epic battle between the "bully" and the "bitch". When Hillary's supporters were not busy sobbing or blocking highways, they were calling for the end of the electoral college. I learned enough from Wikipedia to understand the basics about it, but its intent is to make the election process more equitable.
Anything that does that is good news for Montana. Our population is barely over a million. If elections were decided by popular vote alone, no presidential candidate would have any vested interest in supporting policies beneficial to low population states like Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and the Dakotas. American presidents would be chosen by voters in a dozen mega-cities on the east and west coasts. There must be something in sea water that corrodes minds the way it does metal, because coast dwellers are disproportionately liberal. They are also disproportionately living off the government. Their vested interest would be to support the candidate who promised the most wealth redistribution. Specifically, taking tax money from the industrious and giving it to the indolent.
So if the electoral college is a flawed system, it fits right in with the rest of our government. I'm going to hold that thought right here in my thimble . . . along with my tears for Hillary.
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