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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...  |
Not trying to be sarcastic here at all, but I was under the impression the electoral college was created because at the time the public was considered to be too ignorant and illiterate to be relied upon to make an educated decision as to their representatives. Keep in mind this was a time when the only form of mass communication was the newspaper and most citizens couldn't read.