Hi Deri,

The electoral college comes from states rights, and each states has a
certain number of votes, depending upon population.  California and
Massachusetts are hugely High density Democratic strongholds that the
popular vote from those states would overwhelm the popular vote in the
states which are Republican. Instead of the winner take all mentality
now being shown by the electoral college to the states, I wonder what
would happen if we did the math by percentages, not by winner take all.
At least those of us voting our protests wouldn't feel so left out.

Mike

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Subject: Dumb Limey!!

Can someone tell me what are the advantages of the Electoral College
system
over more democratic systems.

UK is in the same boat as the USA here - not unknown for the "result" to
not
match the popular vote. Other European countries seem to have adopted
systems
which produce a parliament which more closely matches the popular vote.

I do find it funny that the UK touts its "democracy", but in fact the
system
is designed to perpetuate 2 party politics, which can't possibly
accurately
reflect the broad range of opinions in society.

Cheers

Deri