Your thoughts on the Electoral College

[El Bourricot]

Statistically, whatever you vote won't affect who gets elected. Why bother?

[Destian]

The same logic could be applied to popular votes too.

If you and 32 million others vote and 34 million vote for the other guy 32 million people just 'wasted' their time because their guy didn't win the country.

I think what he means is that it doesn't mean anything because it doesn't even contribute to the final result. In a popular vote your candidate may lose, but at least you brought him one vote closer to winning. It gives a much greater incentive. Every single vote brings one candidate either closer to or further from victory. Every single vote counts. This is not so under the current system.

Why should my vote count less than some chump from Rhode Island? :p

[Soviet]

No, it counts the same as the chump from Rhode Island.. both are worthless.

[El Bourricot]

haha the voting system as it is means that politics is about convincing the vast masses of stupid people rather than please the intelligent - still better than a dictatorship I guess.