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# I don't get all this electoral college gubbins
why can't they just count the votes and then tell us who won?
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Wed 5 Nov 2008, 9:49, archived)
# Obama: 25,122,265, McCain: 245
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# :D
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Wed 5 Nov 2008, 9:52, archived)
# Worryingly, no -
60m voted Obama, 54m are mad fuckers. Makes me shiver.
(I helped save b3ta! Fronds are waving gently on, Wed 5 Nov 2008, 10:42, archived)
# That involves some kind of counting
which would take Mathematics or as the Americans say (Math!) science is not yet at the stage of being able to calculate that 1 person + 1 vote = 1 vote sheesh you'd have to be Albert Einstein or something!
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Wed 5 Nov 2008, 9:52, archived)
# I'm oversimplifying it, aren't I?
Damn my sensible head.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Wed 5 Nov 2008, 9:53, archived)
# It's a lovely system in principle.
The essence of the idea is that you vote for people wise enough to decide who should be president disinterestedly. There's no reason in principle why members of the electoral colleges should vote along party lines, though I think that there's only been one instance in the 20th century when that has not happened.

The idea is that you modify the tyrrany of the majority and account for the fact that the average joe can't reasonably be expected to have a sound enough grasp of every issue. Voting, in effect, becomes a matter of nominating people to speak on your behalf from a more informed position.

/making-it-up-as-he-goes-along blog.
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# I was feeling all informed till I got to the end.
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# ...
I think that it's the way it works.
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 5 Nov 2008, 10:02, archived)
# I learnt about it at a level
it makes our system look really basic by comparison.

Basically each state is worth a ceratin amount of points... whoever gets the most points wins.
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Wed 5 Nov 2008, 9:54, archived)
# Is it basically a form of proportional representation?
(I helped save b3ta! Barbarossa is not my real name, Wed 5 Nov 2008, 9:55, archived)
# No, it's a two horse race
so there's no room for proportionality.
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# Doh of course!
*needs to wake up*

(I helped save b3ta! Barbarossa is not my real name, Wed 5 Nov 2008, 10:03, archived)
# I like my way better, damn it.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Wed 5 Nov 2008, 10:02, archived)
# ...And we know what points mean...
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# Exactly!
It's alot like Risk really, once you've got Asia you've got. . . Well, it's alot like Risk!
(OutlawV, Wed 5 Nov 2008, 10:36, archived)