The battle for the Democratic nomination is just the latest in hotly-contested presidential elections. After Bush's purely technical defeat of Al Gore, followed by a narrow win over John Kerry, no one should be surprised that landslides are culturally antiquated. Current polls suggest the Clinton/Obama race is in a virtual dead-heat, at least with the popular vote.
Have we really become so incapable of critical thinking that we think only in binary colors? Or are the last few elections markers of an electoral system that has fallen out of step with technology?
Can someone please tell me how, in this new age of information glut, ANYTHING but the popular vote should determine who is president?
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because we, like the founding fathers, are ultimately scared of the masses. nothing's changed (about that) in 200+ years. technology has nothing to do with it. we aren't a democracy. we never were supposed to be one.
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