What I've always wondered about democracy here in the United States is why we use the electoral college. Sure, I understand that having about 100 people that actually vote makes it easier to choose our President. But we are in the electronic age now. We can all vote instantly. So, then, why do we have people representing us to our representatives? So if one candidate wins one state than all the people that are going for the other candidate don't count anymore? Is that how it is now? I should think, since what happened in Florida four years ago, we would have learned that every vote counts!
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We have it because, originally, it was a buffer between the idiotic voting masses and the election. Electorates (the people in the Electoral college) were supposed to vote for the right person instead of who the people they represented, if the people voted for a blubbering idiot. A while ago, the govt decided that that was bs, so they got rid of the voters' ability to vote for anyone other than who the people voted for. Then they did that whole "winner gets all in the state" crap. I think that now its just an issue of not wanted to deal with the restructuring and making amendments to amendments and the Constitution. Lazy politicians...
That's also one of the problems with Congress. Too few laws in too long time.
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