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[Swede Atlanta]

11. Amen to that.......

While I am still nervous about the late intervention of "big money" and the fact Republicans control the vote counting in many key states, I am cautiously optimistic Obama will be re-elected with a comfortable margin, at least in the electoral college. We need to get rid of that electoral college. I understand the intention was not to allow for "mob rule" by tying the college to some balancing between population and inclusion of all states. It is based on the number of Senators and Congresscritters from each state.

But it is hardly democratic. I understand the need to protect "minorities" such as my original home state of Wyoming which is geographically fairly large but has a small population against a populous state.

But shouldn't the election of national leaders be made democratically? That is, the person with the most votes wins. The smaller states still have the 2-Senator representation that is intended to offset a smaller population.

So small states that, in a purely democratic system, would only get one Senator or maybe none, gets to cast 2 votes even if they have less than 1M people (such as Wyoming).

It is a weird system. I understand the original intent to protect smaller states from domination by larger ones but then they also had state legislatures selecting Senators and only white, land-owning men could vote.

Go figure....Isn't it about time to bring our system into the 21st century?