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    LL> Every four years there is talk about eliminating the   
    LL> electoral college.  However, doing so would present a   
    LL> problem. A huge problem.  Ever since our country was   
    LL> founded, each and every state has taken pride in conducting   
    LL> its own elections. Doing away with the electoral college   
    LL> would mean also doing away with fifty state elections and   
    LL> one municipal election. And that would mean   
    LL> nationalization, which is to say, a form of dictatorship,   
    LL> far from benevolent.   
      
    No, it would not. There is no good reason we can't do away with   
    the electoral college and still have state level elections.   
      
    LL> Although the electoral college system is far from a perfect   
    LL> system, it has kept our country united, our people together,   
    LL> and our politicians accountable to the voters.  Everybody   
    LL> has a voice, including those who live in the hinterlands,   
    LL> not just those who live in major metropolitan areas.   
      
    Under the electoral college system the people who live in the   
    hinterlands have a lesser voice. Look at the number of states   
    Romney won, compared to the number of states Obama won. Romney   
    won more states, Obama won more people.   
      
    In 2000 Bush won the electoral college, but Gore won the   
    people's votes. IOW, Bush won the trees and bushes and rivers   
    and deserts, Gore won the people.   
      
    With the electoral college the candidates have no reason to even   
    visit a state or area he feels he has no chance in. Without it   
    all votes count the same.   
      
      
      
      
   BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn   
      
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