The Electoral College

If you live in ANY of the former member-states of the Confederacy, or Wyoming, or Utah, or Montana, and you plan on voting for a Barack Obama, Bob Barr, or Cynthia McKinney, let me save you a little bit of gas money -- STAY HOME. Your vote doesn't count. It means NOTHING. Absolutely nothing. Its worthless for you.

If you live in any state on the east coast north of Virginia, or if you live anywhere on the West Coast, and you intend to vote for McCain, Bob Barr, Cynthia McKinney, or the Constitution Party candidate (can't remember his name), my message for you is the same -- STAY HOME. Save the gas money. Your vote doesn't count in this "democracy."

That's right. Thanks to an old outdated unnecessary institution we call the electoral college, you are wasting your time by bothering to vote.

And don't come back and say to me, "Well, the closer the national popular vote is, the less of a mandate the winner can have." Not according to our 43rd commander in chief Mr. George Bush Jr. He said after defeating John Kerry 51% to 48% that he had a mandate. I guess after having lived through the 2000 election debacle, a guy that wins the popular and electoral votes, even only slightly, is now the beholder of a mandate.

If we abolished the electoral college once and for all, and made every vote count, then people might feel like they had more of a role in our "democracy" even if you're a lefty in Kansas, or a right-winger in NYC.