F... US voting bureaucracy

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Originally Posted by Daseal

FRPLG: I doubt our founding fathers had this insight. The electoral college was created because of poor communication and very long travel times. It was the best solution to a rather spread out country.

This was one reason. I think the main reason was that the founders thought most people were not capable of responsibly carrying out their civic duties. When I see Jay Leno do that quiz thing he does, I tend to see their point.

Also, the the likelihood of someone winning the popular vote and losing in the electoral college is fairly remote. It's unlikely to happen again in any of our lifetimes. It really shouldn't have happened in 2000. It's very rare that a man has such a distasteful persona that he loses his home state. I mean, even Mondale won Minnesota.