[shrinkermd]

"...This uniquely American institution serves our country extremely well. It forces serious candidates to wage national campaigns. One has to win a majority of electoral votes to capture the White House. Thus, regional or single-issue candidates have no hope of achieving victory. While most of us share basic principles, we are a diverse country in our interests and attitudes toward numerous issues.

'...Presidential aspirants, if they are to triumph, must create nationwide coalitions of supporters; they are pushed to bring diverse groups together. Thus, the College usually mitigates divisions instead of inflaming them.

[DuncanWaring]

Here we go again.

From the November 1996 issue of "Discover" magazine:

Math Against Tyranny

[camofilly]

BWAAA WAAAAA WAAAA!! We didn’t get our way! It’s all the fault of the Electoral College! Boohoohoo! What’s its point? Let’s get rid of it!

(They’re such crybabies. Why doesn’t someone offer them a stiff drink and the cabfare home. Go cry in your bathrooms, y’big babies. In other words, GROW UP!)

[mountainlyons]

This was started as a compromise between large population but small states like New York and large area states with small population. If it had not been for the agreement New York would run the whole country. The demorats want to run down the whole country and force the rural people to bankroll the big cities worse than they are forced to do now. Who was it that said that Democracy is a good form of government until the people find they have the keys to the treasury and plunder the country?

[orchid]

Why not just get rid of the unit rule for electors. No longer would the total popular vote in a state give ALL the electoral votes to one candidate. Each congressional district would select an elector who would vote for the person who won that district. The two remaing votes would go to the statewide winner.