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To: i-node who wrote (539361)	12/29/2009 2:14:33 PM
From: RetiredNow	Respond to of 1578177

True enough.

To: i-node who wrote (539361)	12/31/2009 3:54:14 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578177

The president should reflect the nation as a whole, not merely the liberal urban areas that would dictate the leadership under a popular vote scenario. People in different locations have different concerns, the electoral college (and the way senators are determined) helps take care of that a bit, but not in a very efficient way. I'd accept dropping the electoral college, but you would need some other factor to keep a large group of people in one spot from having too much influence on another spot. My ideal replacement for that factor is having government do less, and in particular having the federal government do less. A combination of libertarianism and subsidiarity. Unfortunately I don't see a critical mass developing behind either of those ideas.