Jeff Snyder -> John Massey wrote:

 JS> Actually, John, Americans have never voted a single president into
 JS> office by
 JS> direct popular vote. To make my thoughts more clear in my previous
 JS> statement,
 JS> what I should have said was that "Maybe we should go back to
just a popular
 JS> vote, and one-man, one-vote, as some of the Founding Fathers wanted to do
 JS> since 1787." There have been a number of legislative attempts
to do exactly
 JS> that since that time, but they have all failed for one reason or another. I
 JS> know that some people argue that the Electoral College is a better
 JS> system, but
 JS> I am not convinced of it. There is so much room for corruption and
 JS> political

Uh Jeff..

Electing a US President by direct popular vote isnt going to work and will
further encourage more voter apathy.

Why you ask??

Our population distribution...

In simple terms, the population of California, Washington and Oregon tend
to be mostly liberal, they could out vote the rest of the country
especially when combined with most of the Northeastern States..

So do you want to allow just California, Oregon, Washington, New York,
Massachussetts pick our Presidents for us? Their combined populations would
dwarf the rest of us.

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