Today is the day Americans will vote for the next “most powerful man in the world”. I’m sure there will be scandal, mayhem, vote recounts, more scandal, and we probably won’t have a “winner” for a while yet.
I think generally the whole American democratic system is flawed, and I find the Electoral College utterly weird.
Those Electoral College votes only count for a mere 538 votes. For example, the entire State of Wisconsion, with a population of ~5.5 million people, is decided by only 10 Electoral College votes.
I can only hope that one day the whole system will be reformed, as the US elections now affect the rest of the world more than ever before.
There is a good map on BBC News. And it looks like Bush is going to win…
Don’t mess with Texas, right Ani?
Don’t mess with Ohio!
Honey, do we still have the keys to the fallout bunker?
OMG! 4 more years of this bullshit! We are so fucked. Well at least we have 4 more years of making fun of Bush. Comedians rejoice!
Each state is represented by a certain number of Electoral College votes, the number of which are generally determined by the voting population in the state. It is a convention that all the Electoral Votes of a State are cast for the Candidate who won the popular vote in the State. That sounds pretty fair. You unfortunately make it sound like only a council of 500 or so Electoral College members get to vote for whoever they like.
Perhaps you were suggesting it should be reformed so that the rest of the world can vote too.
The electoral college system was designed with keeping newly liberated black voters in line…
It would seem to be doing that very effectively..
It helps if the vote is being held on a Sunday
Argh! He’s in. What a nightmare.
Affect, Ms. Moller.
Ssh! Even superhumans like myself make mistakes!