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Hillary Clinton is too polarizing. It'd be a gigantic mistake for the Dems to put her up in my opinion. I wouldn't have a problem with a woman, in general, holding office, but I'd have a real big problem with THAT woman holding it.
And yeah, the electoral college is fuckin' retarded. I live in a state that's notoriously a blue state (When Reagan won 49 out of 50 states in his landslide win, Minnesota was the only one he lost.) but my parents are staunch conservatives. They hit the polls & vote every election but their guy never wins & all of our states votes end up going to someone they oppose. (Which I typically find pretty funny.) People say it's important to vote, but honestly, I can see a lot of cases where it doesn't make a lick of difference.
Right around the 04 elections, it was rumored that Colordao was gonna change how their electoral votes worked. Let's say, for the sake of simplifying this, that Colorado has 10 electoral votes. If 60% of their states voters voted Democrat, 30% republican & 10% for 3rd party candidate, they would give 6 electoral votes to the dems, 3 to the repubs, and 1 to the 3rd party. To me, that's fair. It represents the popular vote & then, even if you know your candidate doesn't stand a chance of winning your state, you don't neccesarily feel like your wasting your time going to vote because you know it will count for something. It never happened though and until it does, we're stuck with the utterly retarded all or nothing system.
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