Dump the electoral college

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Author(s)	Jonathan Chait
Source	Los Angeles Times
Date	October 15, 2006
URL	http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-chait15oct15,0,2184539.column
Quote	"Anyway, our current system encourages candidates to devote almost all of their time and resources to a handful of swing states. As it stands now, presidential candidates ignore L.A., New York and the majority of the country. During the last election, George W. Bush and John Kerry spent 40% of their money in Ohio and Florida. If your goal was to encourage candidates to spread themselves out, you almost couldn't design a worse system than the one we have now."

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