Lodenocity: Top Three Reasons Why The Electoral College is Bad For America
Remeber[sic] four years ago, when the presidential candidate supported by the majority of Americans lost the election? Remember how there was a lot of noise about electoral reform? Remember how the noise was just that, noise, and nothing ever got done? Here we are, four years later, with the same flawed system. The electoral college is outdated and bad for America.
Being Canadian, I've never really known what the electoral college was all about and what all the fuss was over. Now I know.
And yet this year, it worked. And some would say it worked just fine in 2000. Two sides to every coin.
Besides, the Heisenberg principle (well, one kinda like it) kicks in here: Republicans don't turn out as strongly in California, New York, or DC because Democrats always win those votes. If it was a popular vote, then they'd turn out more.
The same is true, of course, of Democrats in Republican-heavy areas.
So Gore may have lost both ways. But you can't say he "won" the popular vote when voters knew the rules of the game. Change the rules and the result, by definition or necessity, changes.