cuddlefish

I DON'T WANNA MOVE TO JAPAN WAAAAAAAH *bursts into tears* And I don't want to be a grownup about this either. At least if being a grownup means sighing, not crying, and making a few more Bush jokes.

On a side note, I was thinking, why did they make the electoral votes thing up, anyway? Is it because normal votes were too hard to count? (And to get a clear winner, I guess...) Because if that's the problem, what ABOUT technology? We do have enough computers nowadays to count the votes all together and get percentages. We don't really need states to represent our votes anymore, do we? No, okay, I know somebody out there's already made that argument. The important part is this fantasy I'm having of George Washington or some faceless important ancient politician (think faces on coins and bills) somehow having it explained to him that by the power of our amazing technology, we can vote in a way you couldn't three hundred years ago. He gets all outraged that we aren't LEAPING at the chance to do things the new, accurate way, grabs Bush by the collar and goes "GET OUT OF THAT OFFICE!!!" Oh, and he's TOTALLY taller than Bush in my head (even though he probably wasn't. Whoever this guy is. People back then were shorter. Mutter mutter).

I'm so embarrassed...I'm hallucinating...=_=

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Date: 2004-11-03 05:34 pm (UTC)

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branchandroot

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Unfortunately, the electoral college was there from the start. It was designed so that the "right" people, that is, propertied white males educated in the same tradition, would be able to have greater control over the election results. Because they didn't trust the people at large, not even the small percentage who was allowed to vote at the time. At the beginning, technically, the popular vote was only a recommendation; it was the electoral college who decided whether to take it or not. I'm fairly sure that rule has been changed by now, but that was the idea.