Calladan wrote:WhatsamattaU wrote:One of the purposes of the Electoral College is to thwart highly populous states from riding roughshod over smaller states. In the event that no candidate reaches the required states, the election is turned over to the House of Representatives.
Erm - how? Surely if you based it on the popular vote - as in how many votes each candidate got, then it wouldn't matter on the size of the state, because the vote of every single citizen, no matter where they lived, would matter equally.
And surely the Electoral College does the opposite of what you are saying. In that (in this election) the vote of someone in California counted for more than 11 times as much as the vote for someone in Idaho. Which - for a country that prides itself on democracy, and a country that was apparently founded with the words "ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL" is a tad hypocritical and somewhat full of bollocks, if you ask me.
America's political system goes to obscene lengths to protect its minorities, and rightly so.