(August 6, 2015 at 10:40 pm)Iroscato Wrote: The US electoral college has always bewildered me. How is it you can have a system that enables a candidate to literally have less votes yet still win the election in certain circumstances?Our system is why Presidential polls don't matter. It's irrelevant at the current time what any Repub candidate's poll numbers are unless the poll respondents are Dem voters in the Blue States. That's because the Repub candidate (and it doesn't matter which one it is) will win the Red States but he will lose the election unless the Dem voters in the Blue States like him more than they like the Dem candidate. In other words, the Rep candidate can get every single vote in the Red States and he will lose the election. Right now the only voters that count are the Dem voters in the Blue States. As long as the Dems outvote the Repubs in the Blue States the Dem candidate will win, regardless of which Dem it is.
The polls help the candidates get money and that's about it.
