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To: ManyMoose who wrote (67339)	5/21/2008 11:39:14 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542940

That way the candidates will be forced to campaign there I'm struggling to see the value in candidates going to any states. What is the value in that. Don't we all have televisions? Even if they come to our states, we still see them only on TV. Obama and McCain were each withing walking distance of my home but I didn't know it in advance and may not have bothered to walk over had I known. It's not like I would have had an opportunity to question them.

To: ManyMoose who wrote (67339)	5/21/2008 12:16:27 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542940

I'm not a fan of the electoral college system because I think it's one of the sources of our failure to address a host of infrastructure problems in big cities, including public education, including higher education. As for the primary system, there is definitely much that can be done. But it's very unlikely to happen for the same reasons that we are unlikely to change the electoral college. Too many powerful actors with too much at stake in the present system. It will take, unfortunately, some sort of disaster for that to happen.