Quote:
Originally Posted by Janszoon
|
The last one, I think.
Quote:
Originally Posted by gunnels
I'm going to spare the forum an eight paragraph speech on my opinion of the electoral college, but suffice it to say it's bogus. Romney took Tennessee with 64% of the vote, but the other 600,000 people who voted for Obama don't matter. =\
|
It's not really bogus - it's just not democratic. If the US was truly democratic, we would simply count up every individual vote and the highest sum wins.
But the US is not and never has been a democracy (that is a myth or a semantic problem), it's always been a republic. Which, in a way, is a good thing because it gives more power to localities over the federal government. It's complicated.
Edit: Obama has now won. Unless a lingering problem mounts in Ohio or Florida like we saw in the 2000 and 2004 elections.