Originally posted by: chucky2
Ideally they wouldn't, and we'd just tally all the individual votes and be done with it.
The reality though is group think permeates. So when you have large groups - like large metropolitan areas - start leaning
waaaaayyy towards one side, there's a problem there when you can go 30 miles outside of that area, travel another 1800, and that whole time, be over the center side the other way in mentality.
In short: I don't want wacko's from San Fran being able to choose the next Pres. because there's @ssloads more of them...anymore than I want some backwoods rednecks being able to. The current system, while perfect, at least makes some effort to even that out.
If we were all either at the center, or just slightly to the left or right of center, then I'd say go one vote per person...unfortunately there's way too many polar opposites to do that.
Chuck