What I found utterly pathetic was that every Canadian I knew understood our Electoral College system better than the idiocy I was seeing in American media reports at the time.
In fact, my frustration over this is what led me to sign up here on FreeRepublic! LOL.
Yeah, my Aussie friends were amazed how it worked.
My neighbors here at the Sea of Cortez are rugged Calgarians. They espouse frontier values like us.