Originally Posted by Nathan";p=&quot

I used to be pretty strongly anti-electoral college... in fact i think i even voted "Change" in this poll a few months ago.

but i recently came across an argument for it which makes a lot of sense....

Basically, the electoral college is decentralized. This would make it much more difficult to rig the election.

Say you live in texas. Under the electoral college system, there is no motivation to fudge the election results past the 50% line. Whether 60% or 80% of texans vote for one party is irrelevent, the candidate gets the same ammount of votes.

In a popular vote system, the ruling party of the individual state would have a much better incentive to skew the local election results strongly in their favor.

Edit: also asside from the possible riging factor... this could lead to different parts of the country with 90% support for any one party. Which could mean civil war. Politicians should not be encouraged to try to solidify their support in just a few states, they should broaden it.