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I stated my view on American Candidate a couple of weeks ago, but today's Chicago Tribune Ellen Warren asks, "Why shouldn't a reality TV show pick our next president?"

Anybody who immediately dismisses the idea of the "American Candidate" show hasn't checked into what the presidential election system has become.

I already stated that there are considerable problems with the campaigns, but a comparison between our election system and a reality TV show (oxymoron anyone?) is absolutely absurd - but I'm getting ahead of myself.

Then consider the debacle of the 2000 Florida vote counting. [. . .] Judging from some of the inhabitants of the White House and the way they got there, the current electoral system has already [made a mockery of] itself.

Are you still whining about that? News flash: Florida didn't cost Al Gore the election; Ralph Nader did. Do the math.

Or the impenetrable idiocy of the Electoral College that makes a mockery of the one-man-one-vote concept.

My dear Ellen, that 'idiocy', as you call it, increased the political power of African-Americans and other minority groups. Perhaps you would like to do away with that, and move to a true one-man-one-vote system. Furthermore, with the Electoral College, there isn't a single geographical region that controls the majority of the votes. Should the urban voters have dominance over rural voters?

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