[merrylander]

Originally Posted by painter

Indeed! A voted presidential candidate without this nonsense... would be more like it. Just saying....

http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/thepol...ectcollege.htm

To further mess up the system some states use 'first past the post' to assign their electoral votes while others more fairly apportion them according to the popular vote. The Electoral College may have had a purpose at one time but it no longer serves any useful function - other than to distort the will of the people.