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Originally Posted by sperbonzo
You may not understand why the electoral college is there. Without it, the population centers on the coasts would completely overrule states in the center that they have nothing in common with and do not share issues with. What is important to people in montana is not important to people in NY, and so forth. Issues for everybody need to be represented, that's the only fair representation, and it was set up that way by the founders so that just because people in big cities don't think that what happens in Oregon (eg) is important, the people in oregon still have some kind of say in the matter...  |
That's absolute nonsense, which is quite clear from the fact that Bush got more votes than Kerry, even though Kerry did better on the coasts and Bush did better in the center.
Without the electoral college, every vote would count equally, and since there are quite a few people living in the center of the US, any politician hoping to win the presidency would also have to pay attention to those states.
The main difference, however, would be that conservative voices on the coasts and progressive/liberal voices in the center would also be heard. One could argue that that would be a good thing.