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Originally posted by kaliboy2g
If we have 295 million people in the US.
And roughly 190 million vote. And overall.
100 million vote Bush. 80 Million vote kerry. 10 Million other.
Then technically Bush wins right.
So whats the need for the electoral college.
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the basic idea was to give every state a voice so that even the smallest state has a say in the election and the candidates would have to pay attention to them. The problem is that has we have grown as a country some states have gotten huge (population wise ) while others have remained pretty small so the difference in electoral votes is pretty big. So now instead of the cadidates focusing on all states to get eveyones votes, they only focus on the ones they can win or the ones that have the most votes. It was designed to make everyones vote equal, but now that is far from true. I think, in the modern age, it's a flawed system but for the time being it is the system we have.