Who continues to believe that he electoral college is the sensible way to elect a president? I used to live in Kansas - If my presidential vote there was for a democrat, it was a futile and wasted vote. I also lived in Minnesota where, if my vote was for a republican presidential candidate, it was wasted. How many people in California and New York, who would otherwise vote for the republican presidential candidate, simply don't vote because they realize their vote would be of no consequence in the national election? How many people in Mississippi or Alabama who would vote for a democrat for president, choose not to vote because it is futile? The unsightly Florida recount and subsequent supreme court decision in 2000 would have been unnecessary (which would make republicans unhappy, but it was a potential crisis for the country) if the popular vote elected the president - or would it - If Western Time Zone states had not already been made aware of the trends, maybe many many more would have voted, especially if the outcome was not based on the winner take all electoral process, with the chance that Bush may have won the popular vote.

The electoral college is, in my opinion, a concept that has become an anachronism which no longer makes sense in the computer age. We are no longer 50 individual states (how many of you are living in the state in which you were born and raised?), we are one nation that is connected by unprecedented electronic access. We should vote as one nation for arguably the most important position in the country.