[ale] OT: Go Vote!

[Chris Ness]

On Tuesday 18 July 2006 07:44 pm, Jim Philips wrote:
> KingBahamut wrote:
> > I guess there is that whole electoral college thing, which I dont get
> > entirely.
>
> Well, without it, the candidate who got the most votes would win. And
> that would be too logical. So, we created the electoral college as a way
> of allowing the minority vote-getter to win. Ingenious, isn't it? (This
> is not a partisan post. I just think the electoral college system is
> crazy.)
>

Actually, it is one of the better things the founding fathers gave us. And we 
need it now more than ever. It is the same as the number of Senators and 
Representatives. It gives some balance to the people who live in places other 
than California and New York. As it is, candidates don't even campaign - at 
all - in as many as half the states. People who live in South Dakota for 
example barely count now, but at least they have 3 electors. Since the 
passage of the Seventeenth Amendment of the Constitution, we are barely the 
United states of America anymore and are gravitating to being the People's 
Republic of America. Here in Georgia, we still barely count. Go to a strict 
plurality, we won't count at all.