The utter fallacy of the Electoral College

[goobergunch]

In 2000, George Walker Bush was awarded the pResidency over Albert Arnold Gore, Jr., 271-267, despite losing the popular vote by half a million votes. This called attention to the problems existing with the Electoral College system. But how bad could the problems be if the EC and the popular vote dissented only three times since the Civil War?

Well, they could be really bad. I worked out what would have happened in 2000 if all the states that * won or was alleged to have one were won by * by one or two votes and all the states that Gore won were won by Gore unanimously, keeping turnout the same as in 2000 and eliminating third parties. Here were the results:

Gore 80,588,195 75.77% 267 EV
Bush 25,766,716 24.23% 271 EV
Gore Plurality 54,821,479

In this situation, Gore would have won the popular vote by over 50 million votes. But under the Electoral College, * would have won the pResidency despite having failed to recieve a quarter of the total votes cast. I know it's not a realistic situation, but it's possible...