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Politics
Why do we still have the Electoral College?
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10Why? Because the is the United STATES of America. States count.Bill-11/4/2004
9The French question our electoral system... <B>Long Wait for Results in sandintoes-11/4/2004
8The founding fathers were not quite certain they could trust the illiterate farsandintoes-11/4/2004
7The founders were smart men. They knew that without this mechanism the candidatec.horn-11/3/2004
6Connecticut has also lost a seat. We have 5 now. I hope the seat went to a nice c.horn-11/3/2004
5did you notice this year, New York and Pennsylvania each lost 2 electoral votes Jon Khymn-11/3/2004
4The Founding Fathers' Idea by Kevin Bonsor Every four years, on the TuesdaJon Khymn-11/3/2004
3Because California, Texas, Florida and New York would decide every federal electc.horn-11/3/2004
2Ok, a bit more interesting readings: Other than Mr. Gore, who else lost the PresJon Khymn-11/3/2004
1How this all started in the beginning: Alexander Hamilton's design for the EJon Khymn-11/3/2004
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