Originally Posted by
Demogorgon
The point is, with the EC, you win some, and you lose some. Some times you get an amazing candidate who takes it all. Sometimes you get a piece of shit. Without the EC as a possible balance, you run the risk of always getting a piece of shit. If it was clear that one party would always win the popular vote, then every candidate would run on charisma and not on actual governing ability. That's not speculation, that's fact. You can keep on claiming i'm insulting you when I'm not, have at it, but at least try, for the sake of actual conversation, to look at the way government is supposed to work OBJECTIVELY.