Zabaro"
> > Eh...
> >
> > There was a Republican president with a majority in both houses prior to 
> > this,
> > so I don't see that big of a change.  The Republicans in the Senate still 
> > don't have
> > the votes necessary to override a filibuster.
> 
> The difference is now they got a few more seats in each,
> plus got rid of Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle.
> 

Yeah, but they don't have a super-majority, thus the Democrates can grind the system
to a halt still.

> It just seems to me that the Electoral College goes against the spirit
> of a democratic society. 

Except we aren't a true democracy.  We are a REPUBLIC!  If we were a true democracy,
we wouldn't have elected representives.  We'd have frequent elections and vote on
all issues in a true democracy.

The EC works on the principle of the states forming a republic.  "United States of
America".  The leader of the nation is chosen by the states.  Whom a state goes for
is chosen by the people.  It isn't complicated, and it gives the states the power,

something the founders wanted. 

Had Kerry won the EC but not the popular vote, very people would be complaining about
the EC system.