>My beef is with the whole system of Electoral College. The vote should be simple popular majority. Why does my vote in Florida count for more than somebody's vote in Alaska? It shouldn't! One citizen, one vote. That should be it.

Actually, in the current system, one vote in Alaska counts for more than one vote in Florida. Every state gets at least 3 electors (just as every state has at least one Representative). In the very small states, the number of voters per elector is much smaller than in the large states.

While I'm not sure how I feel about the whole thing overall, if you take a look at the state-by-state results (they're available at www.cnn.com, you'll see about two orders of magnitude difference in the total number of votes cast by state from the smallest to the largest. The electoral college system magnifies the value of the small state votes. (FWIW, I think Bruce's suggestion of electors by congressional district has some merit.)

Tamar