“I think all of us know, the Electoral College needs to go,” Democratic Party vice presidential candidate Tim Walz said recently. “We need a national popular vote.”The Electoral College certainly has its ardent supporters (who claim, among other things, that it protects the nation from the dangers inherent in democracy and emphasizes that we are a “federal” republic with individual states deserving a bigger say in the outcome), but Governor Walz also has a valid point. The American form of government, after all, is based on the principle of one person, one vote.We see that play out everywhere, in everything from races for U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, all the way down to the local school board and board of supervisors’ seats.In each of those contests, once all the ballots are cast, the votes are tallied and the man or woman with the most is declared the winner. But the presidential election is a different beast altogether.In every state (except for Nebraska and Maine), the ...