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Old 11-05-2008, 11:00 AM   #22
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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward View Post
The electoral college was a compromise between the needs of big states and little states, the same as the congress was set up. (The number of electors was the number of house seat + the number of senate seats, per state)

Obsolete? Look at a county election map of the 2004 US election. The majority of people living in 88% of the land mass of the US voted for GW. The Democratic votes were limited to mostly dense urban environments. Question, is all the nation better served by decisions made of, by and for dense urban environments? Decisions that are great for the urban lifestyle may be damaging for the non-urban lifestyle. How do you draw a balance?
I'm not sure we can draw a balance. We do live in a country that is more diverse then most, not including dictatorships, so IHMO this draws a delicate line between urban vs non-urban since the most populous states could with a little help from the less populous could always control the Pesidency if not congress. Also it would be interesting to see the voting demographics between urban and non-urban areas in this election because I suspect it was the cities that carried the day this time.
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