| the2real4mafol said: people should just stop voting democrat or republican and vote for other parties, they do exist you know |
Because the electoral collage would more than likely strike the vote down. Again the popular vote means nothing, the electoral college elects the presidents and Electors are choosen from those who are politcally active who don't hold a major office. You do vote to elect the electors but they don't have to vote in the way you want them to, these are called faithless electors. So in reality the popular vote is removed from consideration. The electoral does most time vote in favor but in a senerio like that I doubt they would go with the popular vote.
So the only votes that matter are the 538 votes of the electoral college. Compared to the 122,394,724 that voted in 2008 election that is a lot of usless votes. (.0004% of the votes actually counted or 4.3X10^-6:1) The system was put in place to make the common citizen think they are making a difference but in reality it very simular to a hamster in a wheel they are running but not getting anywhere no matter what they think.
http://people.howstuffworks.com/electoral-college1.htm
