Barack Obama has officially won the election today, as the electoral college met and formally elected him to be the next President. What kind of message does it send to the electorate that every four years they’re urged to vote, only to get a passing reminder a month later that our constitution provides a backup clause so that we can be protected from ourselves? Isn’t the electoral college an embarrassing relic of when our founders deemed democracy to be too fragile to withstand the whims of the uneducated masses? As we’ve seen over the past eight years, the electoral college is hardly enough to keep fools from seizing power. In fact, as one of those who will never get over the 2000 election, I think the electoral college does a lot of harm to our democracy and should be abolished.

On a side note, I’m not taking the Obama sticker off my car until he’s sworn in.