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Politics : Electoral College 2000 - Ahead of the Curve -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TraderGreg who wrote (1120)11/8/2000 8:52:03 AM
From: jttmab  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 6710
 
While we were chatting about EC votes, I did find the '76 and '68 situations. I might guess that the attempts to get rid of the EC died partially because there hadn't been a discrepency between EC and popular vote since 1888.

Your analogy on the World Series was enjoyable, and it seems to make sense to me; but I'm not a big sports fan.

Though the EC was set up to prevent very popular regional candidates from taking the Executive Branch at the disadvantage of the country at large. I think to abolish the EC might result in campaigning to achieve very popular regional candidates.

jttmab



To: TraderGreg who wrote (1120)11/8/2000 8:59:46 AM
From: Nandu  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 6710
 
The electoral college makes individual votes more significant than would a popular vote based system.



To: TraderGreg who wrote (1120)11/8/2000 9:19:31 AM
From: Nichols  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 6710
 
My head is spinning! This is AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!! BTW, is the count for Senate 51-49 or 50-50?


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