I know a lot of people want to eliminate the Electoral College, and I'll admit that most of the time I'm one of them, but I had a frightening thought today: If we had a presidential election based on the popular vote, and it was a dead heat over the whole country (instead of just Florida) how many more lawsuits would there be nationwide, with individuals in each and every county in the country suing to protest an injustice of 5 or 10 votes? If you think this election is bad, that one would be far, far worse.

Of course, the multiple to which it would be worse is exactly the inverse of the probability that a nationwide tally would be as close as the Florida tally, so it comes out in the wash I suppose.