This is exactly why Electoral system is good... (Score 1)

...No, really. One way to measure the effectiveness of a voting system is the power of an individual voter to change the outcome of the election with his/her vote. Vote aggregation systems like the electoral college give an individual voter greater probability of affecting the outcome of a close election. There have been some very good analytical papers about this. Any system that lets a single vote move a block of aggregated votes has this characteristic.

I'm not ready to throw out the Electoral College system. In fact, I rather admire it. Just as I don't want New Yorkers deciding how I should talk or Californians deciding how I should think, I don't want mainstream group-think to decide all the politics of the day, either.

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