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Sat 1 Nov, 2008 02:05 am
Why do we still go by the electoral vote? Some people say it's because if it's not broke, don't fix it. well I'm telling you that it is broken.
Al Gore lost because he didn't get the electoral vote. If we went by the popular vote, he would've won and our country would be in a much better shape.
Thanks to George Bush, we're in a bad recession and in a war as well. We'd be in neither if we didn't have the electoral college.
Barack Obama is now the only hope we have of getting us out of this mess that Bush has gotten us into. That's why I voted for Obama. The electoral college should be dismantled.
@randyjohnson,
The republican basis of the electoral college stems from the Constitution. When the founders of the United States set out to secure a system of political representation, many among them feared mob rule. Elections based on representative blocks of votes would implement checks within the system. The founders took into consideration that large numbers of regional candidates could appeal to the interests of various select groups, and thus the populace could be divided widely, and disturbances in the succession of power could ensue. The founders surmised that Congress should have the power to settle issues not resolved in a popular election, and created the electoral college.
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