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What are your opinions on the Electoral College and why?

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While there are some logical arguments in favor of the electoral college I am opposed to it. First, as it is practiced it has the effect of stealing votes. read more

Second, while the electoral college was created to avoid a situation of 10 large states getting all of the attention during a campaign, what we have now is only 10 states of various sizes getting all of the attention. read more

Political mildness is scarce nowadays, so it has been pleasantly surprising that post-election denunciations of the electoral college have been tepid. This, even though the winner of the presidential election lost the popular vote by perhaps 2.8 million votes, more than five times the 537,179 votes by which Al Gore outpolled George W. Bush in 2000. read more

By overwhelming majorities, Americans would prefer to elect the president by direct popular vote, not filtered through the antiquated mechanism of the Electoral College. They understand, on a gut level, the basic fairness of awarding the nation’s highest office on the same basis as every other elected office — to the person who gets the most votes. read more

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