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[@Penny] Thank God for the electoral college! Without the good men and women voting against the nation's interests, we'd be in some kind of a...a...DEMOCRACY! 
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Thank God for the electoral college, without it we really would be a closer to a true [i]democracy[/i] which is basically the same thing as [i]mob[/i] rule.  Real democracies are always a bad idea and very quickly fall to ruin since all minority groups quickly get trampled underfoot by the majority.  Gays would never have gotten the rights they do have in a democracy for example.

Electoral college is messy, but it is there to ensure mod rule is not the way to decide things.  Also voting really needs to be handled better to make sure fraud is at an absolute minimum.  Too many examples of questionable voting to say there isn't a serious case of election fraud and illegal votes being done in quite a few states.