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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
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?
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This also is one of the problems with laws such as the "Gun Control" laws. In rural areas where hunting is part of the life style guns (of certain types) make sense but they don't make sense in urban areas since there can be no hunting there. Yet the urban areas can dictate to the rural areas on such laws.
