(02-07-2017, 10:04 AM)PaulP link Wrote:Lods. The system is dopey and regressive, and I would think that even if Bernie Sanders was elected Prez.
If "democracy" means anything, it means majority rules. One vote should count as one vote, at least at the primary level.
Doesn't really matter what the system is that's the one you play by.
The thing about the USA is that you get much more diversity across the different states in terms of values and attitudes.
I go to Victoria and I've just got to make sure I ask for a potato cake when I want a scallop. ;D
Life in New York would be very different from life in Mississippi. Life in Montana different from life in Florida. Life in Alaska different from life in Hawaii....I suspect they don't want California deciding every President...In that respect the electoral college system works pretty well in providing a balanced (or in this case unbalanced) candidate.
If Trump had won the popular vote and not the electoral college I'm sure his supporters would be just as critical...I just wonder whether the independent observer would be though.
Four times in over two hundred years the candidate with the popular vote has not won the electoral college.....four times!
Hardly something to get too worked up about.
Hardly a flawed system.