Thought about this a bit and your statement is limited.
The popular vote only determines "who the electoral can vote for". But the popular is limited to the state only. One or two states have 2 electorials and actually split the vote according to the popular.
But my point was that the popular alone, across the US and across Canada does not count. If there was no electoral college - then the candidates would spend a lot more time in Kaliforneea and Florida to win the Hispanic vote -- for that matter Texas, New York and other "high populated states". But as it stands, the most to win or lose is the maximum electoral votes. And how often do the candiates visit the freak states? (Hawaii and Alaska).
Likewise in Canada - assuming that Quebec + Ontario had the same number of seats as the combined total of the rest of Canada, and everyone in Quebec and Ontario voted for Bloc, and everyone else voted Liberal, we would have a tie - even though we out number the rest of Canada. (Not fair because I love Ted and I love the Bloc).
Off to prison.. cheers!
Blake
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