Just saying I'm a fan of the electoral college
Romney's ahead in the popular vote totals, and has been for a while. I don't know if the west coast is finished coming in yet, but I'm just while he is that I want the election decided on the basis of the electoral college, not the popular vote.
The electoral college avoids all sorts of mischief, and I'd like to make states more important, not less important, so I'm a fan of the electoral college -- though not a fan of actually having potentially faithless electors. If Romney wins the popular vote while he loses the electoral college, as Gore did in 2000, oh well. Romney, Obama, Gore, and Bush would all have run different campaigns if it were a pure popularity contest.
[Edit: looks like West Coast votes hadn't finished coming in when I posted this; I hit send and reloaded the count and nothing had changed -- and reloaded again and now Obama's in the lead. Well, difficulty with the total counts is some of the mischief I had in mind that the electoral college averts.]
The electoral college avoids all sorts of mischief, and I'd like to make states more important, not less important, so I'm a fan of the electoral college -- though not a fan of actually having potentially faithless electors. If Romney wins the popular vote while he loses the electoral college, as Gore did in 2000, oh well. Romney, Obama, Gore, and Bush would all have run different campaigns if it were a pure popularity contest.
[Edit: looks like West Coast votes hadn't finished coming in when I posted this; I hit send and reloaded the count and nothing had changed -- and reloaded again and now Obama's in the lead. Well, difficulty with the total counts is some of the mischief I had in mind that the electoral college averts.]