Friends Across the Pond: Why You Should Not Give Up On America

[abaris]

As a hick from land locked NE I like the electoral college system. It helps to level the playing field for less populous states. We will never have the population of a coastal state.

Don't you consider yourself as one country? I mean, we also have a federal system with 9 different states having their own governments. But the popular votes are counted towards an overall reasult. State elections are held on a different day in different years. They don't follow the same cycles as the federal elections. Pretty much the same system they have in Germany.