That pesky Constitution always gets in the way.
That pesky Constitution always gets in the way.
If it were not for the Electoral College Gore would not even have been nominated for Vice-President and then President. A direct election of the President would mean that the geography of the votes would be irrelevant. The reason the DemocRATS ran a ticket with two "southerners" (I use quotes because Clinton and Gore are southern only in origin not in their attitudes) because the Democrats had performed very poorly in the south in the previous quarter century. Without actually having to win state by state races all over the country, the Democrats would have been free to run a much more left wing campaign that would appeal to DemocRAT voters in the northeast and the west coast. If all they had to worry about was getting warm bodies (perhaps cold ones too) to the polls in the largest cities, the Democrats would have nominated Mario Cuomo.