On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 16:36:16 -0700, GeeDubb wrote:


Still the fact remains that I believe the EC needs to be eliminated. The
majority of the US populous lives outside of the six major metro areas so
I think your reasoning may be a little flawed (IMO) but valid in the fact
that the rest of the populous wouldn't be subjected to the political
banter going on currently (maybe that would be a good thing???). When a
state is split 50.5 to 49.5 (or somewhat close) I have a real problem with
giving all electoral votes to one candidate. It's not representative of
what the People are voting (though statistically pretty close).

If this was a true democracy, we'd also have to eliminate the senate as it
represents the states as entities rather than an equal representation by
population. The makeup of the bicameral legislature and the same
representation in the electoral college are the reason the smaller states
even went along with the current union - so they wouldn't be run
completely over by the more populous states.

-Doug

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