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Originally Posted by Brad Mitchell
I still can't believe that the election isn't simply popular vote. The electoral college seems like the biggest trick ever played on the American Public. to the extent that if someone wanted to win by popular vote they wouldn't even have to make appearances in small states... yeah, I get that... but nonetheless, I feel like Americans should have their votes counted 1 at a time.
Brad
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The irony of that is the candidates don't go to the small states anyways because they don't have many electoral votes. Seriously how many campaign stops are made in Montana, Utah, Alska, N Daktoa, S Dakaota, Idaho, etc? NONE why because the GOP knew they had those states wrapped up and the Dems knew they couldn't win them? Do you see a republican campaigning in Hawaii, Massachusettes, Rhode Island, New York anymore? No of course not. Hell republicans don't even really try in California anymore even though it has 55 electoral votes.
If they are going to stick to this stupid electoral college then they need to do it by congressional distric. If you win that district you get that electoral vote and the statewide popular vote winner gets the 2 extra votes that come from the Senate.
Gore loses Florida by 600 votes out of 6 million and he gets ZERO electoral votes and Bush gets all of them? That's fucked.