The older I get and the more elections I live through, the more opposed to the Electoral College I become.

As a usually-Democratic voter in Louisiana (a "red" state), my vote hasn't meant squat in the last couple of Presidential elections, and probably won't this time, either. Obama is going to carry the city of New Orleans by an overwhelming margin, but statewide, everyone seems to agree that the GOP will always prevail by a few percentage points and therefore "earn" the winner-take-all electoral votes.

Thre is a good side to my situation, though -- I can watch TV all summer and fall without having to endure all those nasty political commercials. It's bad enough I have to sit through the crap they put on the air for the Senatorial candidiates and for all the more local races; at last I'm spared the Presidential sparring and sniping.

I get to the point where I hate the ads even for the candidates I favor: not only the ones I prefer only in a lesser-of-two-evils sense, but even the few that I really like.