[geeks] just to stir things up, a few predictions

[Michael Horton]

>> > 3. The electoral college will fail Political science 101.
>>
>> Well, I think the electoral college has a few more years left in it -

>> everyone has invested too much time and effort trying to figure out
>> how to spin it to their advantage that most are reluctant to change
>> it.
>
>That's what keeps a lot of pork and overly-complicated law and
regulations around too: they are too profitable or powerful >for certain
people to want to get rid of.

the electoral college was designed to give more power to "the people"
and the states.
it was not designed to give "pork" to anyone.
nor is it "overly complicated".
it works in a predictable and efficient manner.
(and don't tell me that algore didn't know the rules; he just wanted to
change the rules when he knew he had lost!)

a reading of the federalist papers will dispel this myth (and well as a
reading of the anti-federal papers.



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