What if we just took an eraser to the electoral college thing?
Terrible Idea, unless you want all our presidents to be elected in New York City and Los Angeles.
That's just poor logic. The electoral college assigns votes based upon population, so New York and Los Angeles are accounted for. The real problem with the system is that if a candidate were to win a state by just one vote, he/she would still get all the votes from the electoral college as if he/she won the state by unanimous decision. The system should be done away with.
First of all, novice, New York CITY and the CITY of Los Angeles don't have electoral college representation...their states do. There are rural people in those states as well (shocking, I know). If we did away with the electoral college, Politicians could select a few, highly populated locations and campaign exclusively in those locations. Politicians are forced to gain support across the entire country, rather than specific regions.
Please, read a book about the electoral college, and stop listening to Al Gore about how bad it is.