"Richard Hertz" no one@no one.com wrote in message
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"Cecil Chapman" wrote in message
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Yeah,, okay. Gracefully accept the things one cannot change :0). I do
want to point out (despite the political 'clap-trap' you will hear) that
the United States is a Republic and NOT a democracy - the president
(through concerns by our founding fathers that the general populace
wasn't
bright enough to make an informed vote ((they could still be right on
this
one grin)) and also a concern by the less populous states that they
would not have an adequate voice ((even though more populous states get
more electors - go figure)) is determined by the members of the
electoral
college, not by popular vote (which would make us a democracy).


Unless you know something most if us don't, they did not leave a
definitive
reason why the electoral vote system was put in place. There are a a few
reasons it could have been done.

I wonder if your opinion on that would be different if the last two
elections had gone the other way but with the same electoral/popular vote
margin...

I can't believe that the existing government (and by this I mean the huge
size of the federal government, not whom is in power) would be tolerated
by
the "founding fathers." I suspect they would be revoled by it and by the
idealogies of the two main parties - for example the governments
interference in our daily lives, the huge pillaging of paychecks, the
social
programs, the interference of poeple's choice to control their bodies,
"War
on drugs", gun control, etc.

Actually some of the founding fathers were for big government and having the
public play almost no part in government decisions.

Jefferson would have been a staunch libertarian.