Zeal,
Now thet you mention it, I ain' t a Gore fan, but neither do I believe that the Electoral College (or the Supreme Court) should be picking our presidents. When you have a " winner take all" approach to assigning a state' s electoral votes, you diminish the say of the people. The EC was designed to get around communications and travel problems of the 18th century. It was the best answer to democracy for the time. Now we outta stand up for the " one man, one vote" concept that was really the reason for democratically electing our president, rather than letting the congress pick him, for instance. Wyoming' s got 3 electoral seats. Even if one less voter votes for a particular feller, the one getting the extra vote gets all the seats, thereby negating the other 49.999% of the voters. Every man' s vote outta count the same. And if you really wanna git political, I' ll tell you why a feller lyin' about his personal affairs and costing us nothing ain' t near as bad as a feller lyin' about foreign policy and costing us the lives of our young men. Case you ain' t noticed, the Europeans ain' t been proved wrong.