Even “Dogs Against Romney” is showing it.

I don’t think the Electoral College will be going anywhere for one main reason–nationwide recounts every time the election is within a million votes. Expensive, annoying, frustrating, and time-consuming. Can you imagine the hanging chads of Broward Co. being played out in every single precinct in every single state??  The electoral college confines the recounts to only the states that are close.

I know that some people don’t like it, and there may be some good reform options out there, but I think that doing away with the Electoral College would have some nasty unintended consequences.

“Dill is already toast and needs to get out of King’s way before we have Libby Mitchell part two.”

I agree completely, and I have been trying to explain this to my friends. I tell them that a vote for Dill would be basically a vote for Summers, and that this splitting of the liberal vote is how we got LePage. I think some people are convinced by this, but I have one friend who is particularly far left (he’s voting for Jill Stein) and he’s not into the strategic voting the way I am, so he says he’ll vote for Dill. If the race tightens any more, then I’ll really try to get him to vote for King.

However, I still think that King will win, and probably by at least 10 points. I was recently on a drive from Central Maine to the coast, and on the way I saw several Angus King signs and only a few Summers signs (luckily, no Dill signs). 

Having lived in the two reddest states, I know my presidential vote doesn’t mean diddly squat.