Originally Posted by eweissenbach

Can't disagree with much of that, but how does that justify the electoral college. The concept of "one man, one vote" does not apply in only one election, president and vp. While the interests in various states are indeed, different, aren't those difference primarily dealt with on a local and state level, where one man, one vote does apply? The president is not the president of the red states or the blue states, he/she is president of the entire country. I think that whatever circumstances made the electoral college good process for the country, have long since drifted into oblivion. As far as computer hacking or voter fraud, etc. it seems to me that it would be easier to manipulate a state or three than to manipulate the vote over the entire country.