| HappySqurriel said: In the context of the original post, I do think that it is interesting that Obama is leading in national polls while sites like pollster.com and electoral-vote.com show John McCain winning the electoral college. Now I could be wrong, but I suspect this is because Barack Obama is winning in states with low per-capita electoral college votes by a very wide margin, while McCain is winning states with high per-capita electoral college votes by a much smaller margin. |
That has been a democratic party complaint.
The electoral college gives slightly more per capita voting power to the smaller states to make sure they don't get bullied by the states with more people. Well that and because of the whole slaves thing... but i mean we don't have slavery anymore.
It also hurts independents. I mean Ross Perot got 12% of the vote or something crazy like that... yet no electoral votes. If he got electoral votes his party could of really stuck around as a real third option.
There are advantages to it as well and a lot of problems with a direct popular vote format. So it's an interesting conudrum.
