Electoral College

[Wyrm]

I actually just did a story for my Journalism class about the Electoral College... If it weren't for the fact that the election was tomorrow (it is Monday now), I might be intruigued by the coincidence.

Anyways, the current electoral college is pretty much the best we can come up with for now. I think the only possible improvement could be to get rid of the electors and have a process where the state winner automatically got the college votes. Granted, there's never really been a problem with them in the past, but it just seems like they don't really do anything that couldn't be done better with an automated process, assuming that the automation wasn't corrupted.

First, I think the american system as it is now is not suitabel for electing a president with so much power.

Actually, the president doesn't have as much power as most people imagine he does. The only reason Bush has been able to do a lot of the stuff he has is because he's been doing a lot of it in the shadow of the war on terror, etc. Because of that, people haven't known about a lot of the dealings, and thus, haven't been able to voice their opinion on them. Now, I'm not trying to attack Bush for this (even though I really don't like him or the decisions/speeches he's been making), because I think any politician would have done the same thing. And I'll stop there before I start rambling.

Just checked http://www.electoral-vote.com/ and apparently Kerry is in the lead again.