> -Solidarity: The Electoral College eliminates votes for "silly" parties such as the Green party so that in most cases, the winner of an election will win by a larger margin. This is also the case with the Canadian system; "silly" votes tend to be disregarded because there are not enough to win any one riding. However, in the Canadian system, there /are/ occasional ridings that vote for independents or for third parties. This is a trade-off that we get for a system that comes closer to the popular vote than the American system; however, since there are very /few/ independent or third-party votes, and since the party that does win the election usually does by a very strong margin to form a majority government, we consider our system a success.

I wasn't going to post on this topic because I'm just sick of politics at the moment, but this argument I reall have issues with. I support the Green party, a lot of people do. Our votes arn't silly and the should count. With the electoral college there is only the illusion that the canidate that wins does so with a large margin. In reality they don't, only a small one, the just get the electorial votes. Our Goverment wasn't created with party politics in mind and George Washington warned aginst party politics when he left office, yet we have it. The two party system is terrible, there are at least 69 seperate corportation that gave over 500,000 dollars to BOTH Gore and Bush, despite what they say they are both owned by Corportations and Special Intrists and it is the two party system, supported by the electoiral college that allows this to happen. At this point it doesn't reall matter who wins the election, Phillip Morris, Microsoft, AT&T, and Coke-a-Cola already own both of them.

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Speed'considereing the number of people who vote compared to the number of possible voters, who ever wins is only going to have the support of about a 4th of the country behind him, if that'ball