On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 14:58:26 +0000, Mark wrote:


Let's not forget why the Electoral College was created.

Same reason the Senate has two representatives from each state, regardless
of population - to prevent the tyranny of the majority. The electoral
college has basically the same representation for each state as the
number of Congressmen in the House of Representatives plus two Senators.
TWhomever gets the plurality of votes in any State gets all the
electoral votes from that State. This distribution was one compromise
needed to form the union of widely different sized (population) states in
the first place. The Senate representation gives each State equality,
regardless of population, and the House gives representative equality by
population.

BTW, I wonder why Hillary didn't make good on her Senate campaign promise
to try to eliminate the electoral college in favor of popular vote? Could
it be that she recognizes she is part of a system with the same
foundations as the electoral college?

-Doug