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Vepres
Junior Chimp
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« on: August 16, 2009, 06:12:07 PM »
The point of the electoral college is to make appealing to swing voters matter instead of getting high turnout from the base.

Anyway, an EC-like system wouldn't work in most places. The US is federalist, so it works here, but it wouldn't at the state level.
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