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Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 18:41:23 -0500
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On 2017-02-07 21:03:37 -0500, nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> said:

> In article <o7bcre$b4e$1@dont-email.me>, FPP <fredp151@gmail.com> 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...
> 
> some changed their vote.
> 
> the point is that with a smaller granularity, the electoral college
> will more closely reflect the popular vote yet retain the level of
> indirection the founders intended.

I think the Founders would stab themselves in the eyes, if they saw 
what the Electoral College has produced.
-- 
"I call my own shots, largely based on an accumulation of data, and 
everyone knows it. Some FAKE NEWS media, in order to marginalize, lies! 
-2017 
"WAR IS PEACE." "FREEDOM IS SLAVERY." "IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH!"  -1984 
Eric Arthur Blair