Ok, I have to straighten out a little point about the electoral college. There is this gross misunderstanding, what the authors of the Constitution did when they created that entity.
The electoral college is not required to fulfill the desire of the popular vote. For the simple reason that the popular vote is dominated by the most populous states. The Constitution's design was to protect the minority from the majority. Thus, you can win New York, New England, California and few other large population states, but still lose the election.
It was designed that way, because people in Wyoming don't like New Yorker's theory of how the world should run. That's also why the Senate has two from each state in the country. It creates a system of equality.
I know that there are people, primarily supporting the "Left" party, who want the electoral college gone. Granted, if you actually look at those "two parties" in the US, you will realize there is no real difference between them. It's all an imaginary line created by the media and campaign managers.
I for one, as a happy supporter of the "third parties" don't want to see the electoral college gone, b/c when people finally wake up and realize they have a choice, other than (A) Jackass, or (B) Babar, they will start to vote for C, D, E, F and G. This is what allowed the "GOP" to become one of the primary parties in the late 1850s, it's what will allow the next parties to rise and hopefully they will rise, before those two parties run the US completely into the ground.
How do I know this. My first degree that I started and finished after leaving the army was Political Theory and Constitutional Democracy. For those of you who do not comprehend what that means. I spent an entire year of school studying the works of the people who created the US government, the people who critiqued their work (most de Tocqueville) and a great deal of time studying what went wrong in the USSR, China and all of those great "Socialist" Authoritarian societies. Sadly, I was informed that if I continued to Law School, upon finishing my law degree, I would be sentenced to life in family court (appointed as a judge), or I could turn that down and be a blackballed lawyer. I was told this by prominent members of both parties in my home state. They wanted me to know, b/c they knew if I turned down a bench position, I would be sunk professionally in the legal world and that no matter which party supported me, the media would ensure I got ignored. Why family court? b/c family courts can't interfere with Washington's agenda.
There is no conspiracy theory, it's the truth. So in turn, I became an accountant. At least this way, I can pay bills, and have a life, outside representing the militias in bogus court cases.
Message in all of this, if you are an American and vote for either of those "primary" parties. You need to wake up, read the fine print and realize those bastards are robbing you, your children and your children's children of the future.
The fastest way to get rid of a corrupt politician, is to vote him out. The fastest way to get rid of a corrupt party, is to vote both of them out. Remember, the US actually has seven, that is 7 political parties on the national stage.
