On 03/30/09, Jeff Snyder quoted Ross Cassell: Obama's Report Card.

RC> Electing a US President by direct popular vote isnt going to work and will
RC> further encourage more voter apathy.
RC>
RC> Why you ask??
RC>
RC> Our population distribution...
RC>
RC> In simple terms, the population of California, Washington and Oregon tend
RC> to be mostly liberal, they could out vote the rest of the country
RC> especially when combined with most of the Northeastern States..
RC>
RC> So do you want to allow just California, Oregon, Washington, New York,
RC> Massachussetts pick our Presidents for us? Their combined populations would
RC> dwarf the rest of us.


Hello Ross. Thanks for your response. As I said earlier, there are arguments
for both sides of the issue. It seems to me that either way, Electoral College
or direct popular vote, it is a no-win situation. Either we allow a few
heavily-populated states to call the shots, or else we remain with the current
system, and the Big Money corruption and favoritism that plagues it. It just
seems to me that the Electoral College system reduces the level of
accountability that an incoming president has to the voting public, as well as
his level of dependence upon them, because his victory really only depends
upon the vote of less than 550 electors. I can just imagine all of the
pay-offs that Obama must be making right now.

Jeff

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