Actually, the electoral votes were put in place by the government way back when it first started, because they believed the common folk weren't intelligent enough to truly decide the best candidate and were swayed by promises of free hay or something, so there's the popular vote that tells the electoral people which candidate to cast their votes for, but they can change their minds and not vote for what the popular vote said. Chances of that are slim to none, though.
Does it make sense? No, not a bit. But that's how it used to be, and we just hate changing old rules around here.
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Date: 2004-11-03 05:35 pm (UTC)Does it make sense? No, not a bit. But that's how it used to be, and we just hate changing old rules around here.