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    53-39? Ouch!

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    • There is a great danger with the present electoral college system of electing a minority or a non plurality president, of electing a president who has fever
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    • votes than the fellow he is running against. When we have an electoral college system, which threatens to elect a man who has fever votes than his opponent,
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    • we tend to erode the confidence in the people of this country and their president - and in their form of government.
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    • - Sen. Birch Bayh (D) Indiana 1968
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    • The EC is a cunt.
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    • As a non-USAer, your entire electoral system boggles my mind. Directly voting for presidents, judges, even education officials seems clunky and inefficient.Continuity
    • But on the other hand, you have insititutions like the EC, which strikes me as being wholly anti-democratic, which makes me wonder why bother asking people toContinuity
    • ... vote for a president to begin with, if he or she will only end up effectively being appointed by a group of non-civilian voters.Continuity
    • Yeah growing up in America you get taught that our system is the best and you can never question it...which is completely absurd of course.yuekit
    • Fortunately if this poll is remotely accurate it's very unlikely that you'd see a popular vote/ EC split.yuekit
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