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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: PROLIFE who wrote (518404)1/2/2004 10:03:37 AM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 769670
 
The electoral college violates the spirit of majority rule.



To: PROLIFE who wrote (518404)1/2/2004 11:40:22 AM
From: bentway  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 769670
 
The Electoral College was a compromise reached to allow the lower population southern states more weight in national elections. It allowed the slave states to count each slave as a fraction of a person, who's master could vote for them. The slaves are gone, but the College remains..