Klarinet Archive - Posting 000158.txt from 2006/10

From: Robert Howe <arehow@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Re: klarinet Digest 14 Oct 2006 21:01:02 -0000 Issue 6915
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 17:53:54 -0400

on 10/14/06 5:01 PM, klarinet-digest-help@-----.org at
klarinet-digest-help@-----.org wrote:

> NO ONE can explain the American electoral college. It exists in a
>>>> spirit world beyond the realm of human comprehension.
>>>

No, this is not so. Even in the late eighteenth century, our Founding
Fathers realized that the relative populations of cities would eventually be
able to carry the weight in a strictly popular vote. The Electoral College
is a wonderful mechanism to preserve the influence of individual states, and
to dilute the effect of large urban centers, which themselves are a special
interest.

Absent the electoral college a candidate could win the presidency by taking
a dozen of our largest cities and their surrounding areas; not a prospect
that promotes a candidate having appeal to a diverse group of urban,
suburban and rural voters.

Robert Howe

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