[exabrial]

Wow I was pro-electoral college before reading your comment, but now I'm cemented in my view.

What you're essentially saying is that the electoral college favors areas with more open minds willing to vote either direction, rather than hard core voting by party, and that is probably the greatest reason to keep it. Political parties _sometimes_ have the people or country's best interest in mind, but ultimately they are seeking power.

[tzs]

> What you're essentially saying is that the electoral college favors areas with more open minds willing to vote either direction

How did you draw that conclusion rather than concluding that it favors areas with the people most easily swayed by massive advertising campaigns?

[fsckboy]

people who are not in the middle can have perfectly open minds, they just agree with more of their perfectly open minded neighbors. I said left-right because it was convenient, but voting does not really work that way, it's an n-dimensional space of little tugs of war.

but, since you are disappointed by what I wrote, I won't go on to cover the 1st and 2nd laws of thermodynamics, they are far and away more disappointing, but in a like manner, the electoral college of physics shows no signs of being open to change, the small quantum states won't go along.