An interesting illustration of why the electoral college is not a bad thing. A ballot measure in Colorado that is currently ahead by less than 1% and could well pass 50.1/49.9 calls for the introduction of gray wolves to Western Colorado. The problem? Most of the counties in Western Colorado voted heavily against the measure. People who live in Denver and environs, on the other hand, who will never deal with a wolf on the other side of the Rockies unless on vacation, love the idea and voted for it. And far more people live in the cities. If they had he equivalent of an electoral college, the population center, Denver, could not impose its will on the rural Western areas so easily. Nothing is easier than voting to put wolves where other people live. At a national level, the huge urban centers could vote overwhelmingly to make the Great Plains into a giant buffalo preserve. But the Great Plains states, where said buffalo would actually roam, would have a much better chance of thwarting that plan in the senate.