Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site harvard.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!marie From: marie@harvard.ARPA (Marie Desjardins) Newsgroups: net.legal Subject: Re: Electoral college Message-ID: <204@harvard.ARPA> Date: Tue, 11-Dec-84 15:26:18 EST Article-I.D.: harvard.204 Posted: Tue Dec 11 15:26:18 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 13-Dec-84 02:18:05 EST References: <204@cmu-cs-cad.ARPA> <4099@elsie.UUCP> Organization: Aiken Computation Laboratory, Harvard Lines: 12 > The major argument that remains for the Electoral College is to prevent one > region of the country from forcing a popular regional candidate on the rest > of the nation. In 1976, for example, Jimmy Carter ran as the first > Southerner to get a major party nomination since the Civil War and won > the South by an overwhelming margin. His EC vote was very close, however. So? If Area X loves Candidate Y, and they have more people than there are in other areas (or at least add enough votes to those of the rest of the country to elect Candidate Y), why shouldn't that person be elected? Marie desJardins marie@harvard