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To: tejek who wrote (160205)	2/6/2003 1:07:47 PM
From: jjayxxxx	Read Replies (2) of 1578890

Re: Electoral College I think the electoral college is an incredibly good thing. While it would be nice to use the popular vote, the implementation of it would dramatically change (for the worse) the way campaigns are run. Mostly this is due to the 'winner take all' aspect of each states EC votes. Think about it, with a popular vote, the contenders would spend all of their time in NY, LA, Chicago, etc. I'm not sure I'm making myself clear - by getting all of the EC votes for little ole [insert small state here] the contenders actually campaign there. Every state becomes important, not just the highly populated ones. It makes for some weird results (ala '00). But in the end it is a much better process - the country as a whole is much better served. You can't really say for sure that Gore would have won an election based on the popular vote because it wasn't campaigned that way. Who knows, he may have gotten an even higher percentage. Doesn't matter though, because that isn't how it works. Just my humble opinion, JJ

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