We love your comments, especially when you agree with us. When you don’t…not so much.

But we really love it when you agree with us and turn us on to cool things. Thanks to joreko, whose comment on a post about the Iowa caucuses and the Electoral College did both.

If the partisan divide in a state is not initially closer than about 46%-54%, no amount of campaigning during a brief presidential campaign is realistically going to reverse the outcome in the state. As a result, presidential candidates have no reason to poll, visit, advertise, organize, campaign, or worry about the concerns in voters of states where they are safely ahead or hopelessly behind. Instead, candidates concentrate their attention on a handful of closely divided “battleground” states. As a result, 88% of the money and visits (and attention) is focused on just 9 states. Fully 99% of the money goes to just 16 states.

I remember being dead sure that no matter what the Supreme Court decided in the final weeks of 2000, at least the Electoral College would be abolished before 2004. And yet here we are, nearly eight years later, with an institution whose expiration date passed long ago still sitting at the front of the refrigerator, in our way every time we try to grab a beer, and producing a loathsome stench.

joreko directed us for a remedy to NationalPopularVote.com, the site for an organization that is trying to dump the Electoral College.

It’s bad enough that we worry that our voter’s registration will be yanked, that blue-haired poll workers will refuse us admission, and that voting machines will toss out our vote if we actually get to cast it. We also have to worry that if the other candidate gets more votes than ours, our vote will be flipped because of the Electoral College.

Get rid of it! Go to NationalPopularVote to help.