| What's wrong with the way the Dems do it? they will eventually have to decide if they want the guy most people voted for or the girl who claims to be more electable. As Ron Paul said the other day (about the GOP) what's the point in having a convention if everything is decided already?
And the primaries have to be run this way. If every state went to the polls on the same day, it would almost always favor the person with the biggest organizations and most money. More of a coronation than an election. This year, Hillary would have trounced Obama.
And Climber07 makes a great point about Algore. He was a sitting VP of a (still) popular two-term President, during peace with a booming economy and he couldn't clearly win. And even if you don't like the way he lost, that's the way the system works.
Finally, the electoral college was not the greatest idea from the Founders. But it certainly beats the other systems.
In the UK now the Conservatives need to come out with some solid policies, but they can't because they don't know when an election will be called and if they come out with their policies too early they will either be stolen or so full of holes by the time things begin they'll be useless.
And then there is "democracy" in HK....  | 
