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Originally Posted by kane
We pretty much don't anyway. I live in a smaller state with very few electoral votes. We might get a vice presidential candidate stopping in her or a quick swing through when they are on their way to seattle or LA, but rarely do we get many visits. Campaign visits are over rated anyway. Most of the people that go to see them speak are their supporters. You can find out anything you could ever want to know about a candidate through the many media outlets everyone has available to them.
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The other reason the electoral college is there, is because the founders didnt have that much confidence in the general population to make informed choices about their candidates. The electoral college can always vote contrary to the popular vote in a given state, if the circumstances are extreme enough.
"The best argument against democracy, is a five minute conversation with the average voter"
-Winston Churchill