Jim wrote: > > >I noticed that you liked the idea of minimally tweaking it >>to divide Electoral votes in a razor-thin election instead of >>going with a popular vote, out right. All I meant was that it sounded like a good idea, *if* there was to be some tweaking of the EC system, to spilt the electoral votes down the middle between both parties in future elections where there may be only a .5% margin in the popular vote in a state. Then again, once you start tweaking with anything, it often just opens the door to more and more tweaking until it benefits one aide or the other. Then, once again, the essential fairness provided by the EC system (to protect states' rights) is compromised, so maybe we should just continue with it the way it is - it seems to have worked overall for 200+ years. Why throw it out because of one election? Kakki, rapidly returning back to cynical apathy <insert big Al Gore sigh here>
