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Originally Posted by Alex Stroup
At least for me, the importance of the electoral college is not one of communication or ability to be heard. It is that there are issues of geography that should carry some weight regardless of population.
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But why? Why should geography play any part in our representative democracy? Going under the assumption that no one is isolated any longer from communication, why do rural Americans need more voting weight than urban Americans?
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Which Jazzman expressed more eloquently while I was posting.)