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On 2017-02-05 15:14:49 -0500, nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> said:

> In article <o77i8n$9rc$1@gioia.aioe.org>, Happy.Hobo
> <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> wrote:
> 
>>> lived in a democracy, and I pray that "one man, one vote" never becomes
>>> the law of the land. I don't want ten large liberal cities to run
>>> America in general and me in particular. I want the federal government
>>> to back off damned near everything. They are not my friend. It has
>> 
>> The argument that we need the Electoral College so that four states
>> can't run the country is silly.  None of those states votes 100%, and
>> even if they did, two of them vote opposite the other two.
> 
> that's not why it's needed, although the granularity could be smaller.

Hamilton says in Federalist Paper #68...  the reason for the EC is so 
that if the voters choose an completely unfit candidate, the electors 
will know better, and deny him the presidency.

So that didn't exactly work out as planned...
-- 
REP. JOHN DUNCAN (R): "Do you understand that great numbers of people 
feel, now, that there's one standard of justice for the Clintons and 
another for regular people?"

COMEY:  "Yeah, I've heard that a lot... it's NOT TRUE, but I've heard 
it a lot."