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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: michael97123 who wrote (51520)6/24/2004 3:18:46 PM
From: Andrew N. Cothran  Read Replies (1) of 793904
 
michael97123: You need to read up on the reasons for and the history of the Electoral College. The basic reason for its existence was an attempt, mostly achieved, to provide a sense of balance and equity between the large and well-populated states and their smaller southern and western counterparts.

The concept was that the Electoral College equalized the relative imbalance between the larger states and the smaller states, thereby achieving greater equity. This meant that the rabble and masses in the Big East (New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, for instance) could not be "organized" and controlled by machines and machine politicians who would use their clout to dominate national politics to the detriment of the little man who lived in the small villages and farms of bigger America.

The Electoral College has worked well. It has limited the spread of demagoguery and kept machine politics and politicians relatively honest. It has also given the little man on the street, from the small town, the sparsely populated states, etc., a greater sense of his own individual worth and importance in the broader policital world.

I think, when you study the history of the Electoral College, you will discover that it has been a godsend to our Republic and in no instance should be abandoned.

One wit in the past described democracy as the madness of many for the gain of a few. The Electoral College helps to equalize the political distance between the "many" and the "few" thereby giving the electorate a better sense of balance and equity and a feeling that "every vote really does count" and not just the votes of the well-populated cities and states.

Cheers.
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