> I've been hearing it all day. They keep saying that this alleged election proves that your vote counts. Not true. Suppose you vote for the candidate of your choice, but he doesn't carry your state. All of your state's electorial votes go to the other candidate. Where is your vote? It never left your state. It had nothing to do with the outcome of the election. It doesn't matter if the candidate who won your state got 100% of the votes or only 51%. He still gets all of the state's votes as if everybody in the state voted for him.
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> The electorial college may have been a good idea when all votes were on paper and were counted by hand. Election returns in those days traveled at the speed of a horse. It could be days, even weeks before the election was decided and an equal time before the results were known all over the country. It is a system from the past and that's where it belongs. In the past.
> Howard

Hear Hear Howard.

Also on another note, it was the Federalists, lead by Alexander Hamilton, who strongly supported the Electorial College at first. The opositon (I'll admit I don't know the oposing party's titel) was lead by people like Thomas Jefferson. While the Federalists Papers were important in our nation's history it is also important to note the Federalists thought the common man was ignorant and erratic, and an 'intellectual elite' should decide things. The Electors of the Electorial College were ofcourse picked from this elite. I think the view that the common man is too stupid to vote properly was wrong in the 1700's and is even more wrong today. Down with the electorial college.

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