On Monday 11 February 2008 17:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The Electoral college made sense when communication was slow and > >people were uneducated. It is just plain silly now; the only thing > >that keeps it around are the less-populated states (read: states where > >few people choose to live, usually for a good reason) who want to > >retain their disproportionate influence. > > It's not disproportional influence... it's influence of any kind as without > the electoral college the smaller states would be totally ignored. This > was more of a problem when the unions were stronger as it just took a few > extra votes for the unions to swing the votes of an entire state. That was > when I questioned the electoral college. The so-called elites look at > these states as 'fly-over country'. We don't have to join them in dissing > these states.
Hi Larry! We don't HAVE to join the dissing, but the Liberals WANT to! -- Regards, Pete http://www.pete-theisen.com/ _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
