I'm postings this in here because I can't acctually responed to ybiC's post.

I've been doing some reading on the American electoral process and American presidents, and I'm going to take a stab at the reasons for the existence of the Electoral College. Now, not being American, I may miss the mark be a lot, but what else is new?

It seems to me that there was a choice regarding the election of a president. Either by popular vote, or by selection of Congrees. It was decided to do a combination to prevent Congrees from picking "favourites" (notice the 'u' :), and the people from making foolish choices.



FouRPlaY
Learning Perl or Going To Die Trying

In reply to RE: RE: RE: Of Dead Trees and Democracy by FouRPlaY
in thread Of Dead Trees and Democracy by brainpan

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