Anyone following the news over the past ten days might conclude we are about to elect the President of the State of Ohio.  Now I have nothing personal against the people of Ohio but I do object to the idea that they are the ones, in then final analysis, who could select our President for the next four years.  Then you hear how the Ohio coal lobby and coal unions are endorsing one of the candidates so, in theory, you and I could be governed by the person chosen by Ohio coal miners.  Over and over again we hear about the "swing states" that will decide the outcome of the election. Although I happen to live in one, Florida, I think our election system stinks.  We choose our President and Vice President by "indirect election."  We are actually voting to tell our state electors who we want for President and Vice President but the electors are not obligated to cast their "electoral ballots" for the citizens' choice.  Each state determines how electors are chosen so you and I have no idea who those electors are.  Our Founding Fathers established "Electoral Colleges," supposedly, to even out the electoral clout among big and small states.  That's the same argument Congressmen have been using to shoot down constitutional amendments eliminating the "College" over the past several decades.  I fail to see how electoral votes even the playing field between Vermont's three electoral votes and California's 55.  The problem is compounded by the political parties' Holy Grail, voter turnout.  Theoretically a small number of voters in states with lots of electoral votes could decide for the entire country.  But look on the bright side.  If we have a very tight race and it comes down to the electoral votes in one "swing state," we can just have the Supreme Court decide who will be President.  Think that could ever happen?