"Wolfgang" wrote in message
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Good God, you people will swallow anything. The abolition of the
Electoral
College doesn't "favor" anyone but individual voters. With or without the
electoral college, places where there are more people have more votes.
With
or without the electoral college, states with larger populations exert
more
influence becasue there are more people voting.

The underlying principle behind democratic elections is that everyone who
is
eligible to vote gets one vote, and whichever candidate gets the majority
of
the votes wins the election. Insofar as the Electoral College supports
that
fundamental tenet, it is entirely superfluous. We just don't need it. If
it does anything other than facilitate the democratic electoral process,
it
subverts the very core of Democracy. And that is EXACTLY what it does.

Wolfgang

While all of the above is true with regard to a Democracy, our system is
not a Democracy and never has been. Our system of government is a republic,
with all the "subversions" of democracy that that entails. It would take a
major re-write of our constitition to change our system to a true Democracy.
I suspect nothing short of a revolution would accomplish that. Not that
such a revolution is necessarily a bad thing.


--
Bob Weinberger
La, Grande, OR

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