[EM] In defense of the Electoral College (was Re: Making a Bad Thing Worse)

[Jonathan Lundell]

On Nov 7, 2008, at 8:07 AM, Aaron Armitage wrote:

> A national plurality
> election only gains anything in the very rare case that the EC result
> would have been different

That's true only if one assumes that both candidate and voter behavior  
is the same under NPV and EC, and that's really in indefensible  
assumption in both cases.