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On Jul 30, 1:58 pm, rw wrote:

You've touched on another problem with our electoral system. The
state-by-state winner-take-all system concentrates campaign effort and
money into a few "swing" states, while the candidates all but ignore the
voters in solidly red or blue states. This isn't good. It holds our
politics hostage to small, highly motivated constituencies in the swing
states.

So we should go back to locally elected electoral college members who
will considerately cast their vote for president? ;-)

Jon.

They were not locally elected. The Federal founding Fathers left it up to
the states on how they picked the voters in the Electoral College. And the
reason Alaska gets the minimum is they have 2 Senators and only one
Representative.
EC set up for just this reason. Did not allow the big states to run
roughshod over the small states.