This amounts to grasping at straws on the part of the Clinton campaign, particularly given that I remember Hillary herself suggesting after the Gore travesty that maybe we oughta deservedly chunk the Electoral College into the proverbial dustbin as a ridiculous artifact of history.
For what it's worth, I can't think of another issue on which I agreed so wholeheartedly with Ms. Clinton. And, at the time I considered it a very courageous stance on her part. The Electoral College, and the whole Rube Goldberg nominating process, are as ridiculous as the three fifths clause...about the only thing to come out of such an anachronism is continued inequality of votes, which contribute to the preservation of power for various yahoos, lunatics, and local poo-bahs. I guess it also provides a minor economic bump every four years, and then there's a rather small number of political scientists generating temporary employment out of the whole mess.
It's long since time to dump both the Electoral College and the ridiculous nominating process--have either a national, or, at the very least, series of maybe four regional primaries, followed by a general election based on VOTES (what the hell is "popular" vote anyway, besides an obscenely undemocratic description of the electorate). If you want to preserve tradition, help the rebuilding of New Orleans...
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