[Lou L]

I'm surprised that no one's picked up on this, at least no syndicated columnist or TV/radio show. Candidates like this bimbo (and the large number of candidates on the ticket in the California race for governor) are the reason we elect our president through the Electoral College. It's also a good argument for fewer parties, rather than a party designed for each special interest.

Candidates like Ms. Carey are exactly why the "popular vote" should never be used to determine outcome of a presidential election. Just imagine if some clown from a state with a large population like California or New York were to be among those running for president, and assuming that they would get a large backing from their home states, how would that be offset by a state with fewer people?

Other candidates could be nominated from smaller states, but then they wouldn't have as large a backing as those more populated ones. You could have regional candidates, but some regions are more highly populated than others, and more regional candidates would water down the votes for any one candidate even more.

In a bad-to-worse case scenario, an incompetent or malicious candidate ends up with the most popular votes, and becomes president. It wasn't a good idea for Al Gore, and the California governor's race shows that it's not good for consideration at any point in our country's future.

[The Green Goblin]

Just imagine if some clown from a state with a large population like California or New York were to be among those running for president, and assuming that they would get a large backing from their home states, how would that be offset by a state with fewer people?

Yeah, that might lead to people with loose morals getting elected to high office, and we certainly can't have that in this country...