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Originally posted by sarah_webinc
I understood what he said just fine. Somebody asks a legit question about our politcal system and he gets shit? I am guessing that you didn't pay attention in political science class either.
The distant possibility that someone in the electoral college would cast their vote for someone other than who they were appointed to vote for is something that bothers my husband a great deal too. It has happened before but not, to my knowledge in a a very long time.
The system was set up to give the smaller, less populated states, a greater influence (more equal) influence in the voting. From what I understand though, it stemmed from how the founding fathers wanted the president selected. (reaching back in my memrory here) They wanted a group of (lack of better term) elder-statesmen to decide who would be president and vice president. The people didn't like that and so basiclly we vote to tell those guys what to say. We don't vote for the guys..but they are suppose to say what we tell them.
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bingo. the fact that gore won the popular and lost the electoral college is basically a technicality due to different population distributions now.
i hope that in a few years this system can be abolished, but with the way that this country resists intellectual progress i doubt it.