[quote name='Drocket'][quote name='PsyClerk']Electoral voting gives power to individual states, which is sort of a big deal in the US. The country is a republic, after all. You wouldn't want the parts of the country that had large dense populations wielding power over those with less dense populations. That leads to regionalism.[/quote]
Except regionalism is pretty much where we are now, with he Electoral system. Just look at how the presidential campaigns are going right now: Bush and Kerry are entirely focused on a few 'swing' states, making constant campaign stops and all kind of promises about what they're going to do for that state. The rest of the country, meanwhile, is almost completely ignored by both parties.
I don't think that going entirely to a popular vote system would be the best solution, though: I think the system used in Nebraska and Maine is probably the best. In terms of the possible problem with 3rd party canidates and the 270 vote thing, that would be easily solved by having the presidency go to the person with the highest EC count (instead of requiring 50% or more.) So if the highest rated person gets 48% of the EC, they'd win.[/quote]
Why don't we rewrite the whole Constitution? We don't need that "Freedom of Speech" crap, let's throw that out too.
If you do that system then numberous people will ran, and someday in the not so distance future we would have a president that wins with 11% of the population and he will be a crazy wacko. Because 20% of every country, except France, it's like 80% there, are wackos. The views are so ratical that can't be called anything else. I think I'm one of them through.