Tom Littleton wrote:
"rw" wrote in message
m...

Maybe such an outcome would result in reform of the stupid electoral
system.


I, for one, have never found anything stupid about the system. It works as
designed.
Tom



It most certainly does not work as designed -- which is a good thing.

As designed, the electors were to be free to vote for whomever they
chose. The power to elect the president and vice president was taken
away from a direct democratic vote and given to a small group of "wise
old men." As I'm sure you know, that isn't the way the Electoral College
works these days. While electors are technically allowed to vote for
anyone they choose, in practice they are a "pledged" to one candidate.
The only real effect is to magnify the voting power of residents of
small states at the expense of residents of large states, and to leave
open the disturbing and very real possibility that the winner will have
lost the popular vote.

It's an obsolete and dangerous system that was designed as a political
compromise in a very different time.

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