Lonely on LBO

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

At 10:05 AM 11/8/00 -0500, Matt wrote:
>From: "Max Sawicky" <sawicky at epinet.org>
>
>> Putting aside the tilt to Bush and the absurdity of any
>> thought that Nader had any intention of causing this
>> particular, bizarre result, is that a bad thing or a good
>> thing? Aren't we better off without an electoral
>> college?
>
>That depends who "we" is.  If it is urban dwellers living on the coasts,
>then yes.  If it is rural farmers, or anyone in a low-population state,
>then no, because they'd be ignored by the candidates completely.

Au contraire.  The current system artificially ties the votes of different
social classes who happen to live in the same geographic area but have
different economic interests e.g. farmers and developers.  Abolishing the
electoral college would eliminate that constraint and allow, say, Lancaster
County farmers to pool their vote with their "class-mates" in other states
as well as with urban dwellers sympathetic to their cause.

wojtek