rw wrote:

In the 2000 election Gore won the popular vote by about 500,000 votes,
but lost the election to Bush by the Electoral vote count.

In the 2004 election Bush won the popular vote by about 3,500,000 votes,
but if Kerry had gotten about 140,000 more votes in Ohio he would now be
the President-elect by virtue of a majority of Electoral votes.

Isn't it time to reform this stupid, broken system?

This canard seems to come up every presidential election. It is in the
interest of the more populous states to get rid of the electoral college
but against the interest of the less populous states. To get rid of it
requires a constitutional amendment. To pass it requires 38 states to
vote for it. If a minimum of 13 oppose it, it doesn't pass. The nine
most populous states hold a bit more than 50% of the population. That
leaves 41 in whose interest it would not be to pass such an amendment of
whom only 13 need to see it that way. It ain't going happen.

Mike