[noiseman]

I got that World Series analogy to explain the electoral college from a conservative talk show host here in Denver, years ago. It works every time because it is so simple and relates to something that everyone understands. You can use it to really get to the point by just asking someone, "So if one team happens to win one game by 10 runs, but loses four games by one run each, should they be declared the winner just because they scored six more runs total, while the other team won the series four games to one?"

Then, once you have them somewhat understanding, explain that if we only used the popular vote to decide presidential elections, the candidates would only need to care about the desires of the people in a small number of very populated cities in a handful of states. What the vast majority of the states wanted would be totally irrelevant.

That's when you go in for the kill by using their own rhetoric against them and telling them that, "It wouldn't be FAIR for only 3 or 4 states to dictate to the rest of the country, now would it?"

[Mears]

We are a baseball family-——we would all get the picture.

It’s funny,but when I was going over it in my mind I had 1-0,1-0,1.0,10-0, and 1-0 as the 5 game scores-—the losing team winning Game 4.

Odd that you had the same numbers.

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