Why should we even waste our time voting for President anymore?

[the2real4mafol]

BlkPaladin said:

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

That is not democracy then, as the elite are even controlling the elections, a run off system would be better for presidential elections, have 2 rounds. The first with all candidates and the 2nd round with the top 2 candidates, it should be based on the popular vote, otherwise it's unfair. But as this electoral college exists and little will change, they is no point in even voting then, as the result is probably already pre-determined.