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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most of this get rid of the electoral college assumes that two party rule will continue.  But what if it doesn't?  What if you have 10 candidates?  Or 4 like the 1860 election where Lincoln got less than 40% of the popular vote yet crushed the electoral.  Then there is the danger of regionalism.  If it came to multi-candidate races, California could present a candidate that advocates California and west coast interests.  Bye bye east coast.

There are lots of dangers in getting rid of it.  Present a plan to replace it and show how it doesn't create new dangers. [/quote]

How many elections in America did we have 10 candidates? The system is setup to be bi-party. This is not a parliamentary system. The very fact the president absolutely needs 270(or 269) rules out multiple candidate because then no candidate can get to 269. There is no provision for multiple candidates or multi-party  in USA.

Your logic is so stupid and you have no clue how the EC evolved. The EC as an institution is rooted in racism since the southern politicians found a way(via EC) to compensate for a higher population in the north by counting the blacks without giving them a vote. The northern politicians went along with it because it gives them a way to control the outcome if a southern politician or a dangerous man was elected by the stupid mass. Hamilton has mentioned that the EC is to avoid someone like TRUMP from becoming the president. [/quote]

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