Who would have won 2000 under different election systems?

[Cairo_East]

I say we use the BCS to decide the presidency.

[Cairo_East]

Sorry to cause confusion in my vain attempt at humor.

To say it's very controversial is accurate.  We'd probably have elected John Hagelin with that system.


I all honesty, I think the electoral college works well.  It has worked, at worst, to 93% accuracy in the past 57 elections.  Any changes to the system would be criticized so much that the underpinnings of American democracy would be compromised.  

I'm not happy with the results of the 2000 election, but if the Democrats weren't so aimless in 2000 this wouldn't have been an issue.  It's also a tradeoff from the sketchy Kennedy-Nixon results in 1960.