This is an old favorite that John Kerry and George W. Bush proved all over again in 2004: If you want to know why America still needs the Electoral College, just think back to your high school days.
As I sit on my barstool, staring at a CNN update on Al Gore's beard and trying to sip my whisky in peace, some drunken lout at the end of the bar keeps shouting: 'Why the hell is the archaic Electoral College still used to select the leader of the free world?'
As a psuedo-historian and author of the Complete Idiot's Guide to the American Presidents, I think I can explain.
