<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>phpisthebest</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;gt;No honest person who is informed about how the electoral college works thinks it’s fair.&lt;p&gt;I do,  because I support the concept of Federalism and I do not believe in a Centralized &amp;quot;America&amp;quot; I believe in 50 independent States,  a Republic&lt;p&gt;I also think popular vote for senate was a mistake.  The States need to have power over the federal government not just the people.&lt;p&gt;The US Constitution reserves powers and rights to both the people AND the States for a reason,  that reason is the fact that our system of government is a Federalist Republic, not a strait representative democracy.  Nor would I support a transition to a strait representative democracy  as I believe the federal government is far far far too powerful today&lt;p&gt;I would support changes to the Electoral College,  like the Wyoming Rule, or requiring all states to delegate their votes Proportionally by congressional district instead of Winner take all,  etc but calls for elimination of the Electoral College are short sighted and ill advised</text><parent_chain><item><author>LordKeren</author><text>I view the electoral college system as the canary in the coal mine for voting changes in America. No honest person who is informed about how the electoral college works thinks it’s fair. There are so many possible bad outcomes of it and there are no positives over a direct vote.&lt;p&gt;If we can’t dismantle the most glaring issue in elections that is the electoral college, I’m not holding my breath for the kind of sweeping reform that would be needed for something as foreign (to the American voting base) as the ranked choice voting</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ranked-Choice Voting Is More Democratic, Not Less</title><url>https://www.americanpurpose.com/articles/ranked-choice-voting-is-more-democratic-not-less/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>indymike</author><text>&amp;gt; No honest person who is informed about how the electoral college works thinks it’s fair.&lt;p&gt;Correct. The EC is unfair by design. It was was never about fair for voters, it was about growing and keeping the nation together. The EC and Senate both are to ensure that citizens of less populous states are heard, and without both, the nation would devolve (if you are not from one of the five most populous states) to whatever the five most populous states wanted, every time.</text><parent_chain><item><author>LordKeren</author><text>I view the electoral college system as the canary in the coal mine for voting changes in America. No honest person who is informed about how the electoral college works thinks it’s fair. There are so many possible bad outcomes of it and there are no positives over a direct vote.&lt;p&gt;If we can’t dismantle the most glaring issue in elections that is the electoral college, I’m not holding my breath for the kind of sweeping reform that would be needed for something as foreign (to the American voting base) as the ranked choice voting</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ranked-Choice Voting Is More Democratic, Not Less</title><url>https://www.americanpurpose.com/articles/ranked-choice-voting-is-more-democratic-not-less/</url></story>