Posted on 11/07/2004 8:24:48 AM PST by redfish53
All a politician would have to do to win large urban areas is to make promises ($$$) to them while campaigning.
Don't think we don't know what this is all about, you Commie bastard, liberal elitists.
No, thank you. The Electoral College prevents the urban liberals from ruling those of us in the heartland. I works just fine for me.
Laura Bush said it correctly on Larry (Death) King live, I paraphase "You have to go to every state in the Union to campaign". Every state in the Union matters. We are the United States of America not the United Peoples of Amerika.
This only proves that the founding fathers were geniuses and had the forethought to prevent MOB rule...
>It/s an exception that may have made sense 215 years ago when the Constitution was ratified, but it's one that has outlived time<
The Chicago Tribune: That may be your opinion, cage liner, but it's not mine. It's not broken, so stop messing with it! (What a bunch of spoilsports!)
And if there was direct election this time, there would be no talk about robbed elections...Bush was a very clear winner in the popular vote.....But mostly I think the electoral college does keep things more equitable...
the united states may be perceived as one state, but it is an assembly of 50. our problem is that we have some states controlling things that should be uniform across all 50 states (e.g. EPA and Clean Air Act that is amended by 17 states with their own version, dictating many different blends of gasoline -- driving up its cost) and some things that should be delegated back to the states. EU is not a nation. it is true that they have a common set of laws, but instead of complying to the laws, the member countries of the EU state are spending time justifying how their current policies fit the EU template. they are actually hamstringing themselves with a three tier level of government.
Sorry chumps. We ain't giving up our electoral votes. It was part of the bargain to get us to join in the first place. Unless mebbee Illinois would like to offer us a trade. We'll give you our two extra electoral votes, you give us one of your Senate seats...
Yeah, and W won by 4 million votes in the popular vote, too!
Using that logic, should W be able to run again in 2008??
How fitting that a Chicago paper would endorse MOB RULE.
They have already begun by teaching our public school children that the Electoral College is bad and (the horror) "unfair." We need to make certain we let younger generations know why it is in place.
The ONLY way I'd support changing allocation of electoral votes would be to do it the way Maine does, i.e., 2 votes for the statewide winner, and the rest allocated by whoever won each congressional district. This would help voters in Red areas of states like PA, IL, and NY have their voices heard.
The United States electes the President and Vice-President. It consists of The People and The States. And it does so by both coming together in the Electoral College.
The Electoral College is the sublime culmination of the "Great Compromise" of the Constitutional Convention with gave us our two-chambered federal legislative branch. Those two chambers respectively represented, guess what, "The People" and "The States".
That "Great Compromise" has prevented this country from sliding from the tyranny of the masses, democracy, to just plain tyranny. But the elitists want to dismantle it.
Many years ago they perverted the Senate by subjecting its members to direct election by the "demos" instead of election by the state. The Senate argurably no longer represents "The States".
Now, every presidential election cycle, these same eletists call to eliminate "The States" from the process of electing our President and Vice-President.
Then, the mob would elect the President and Vice-President. And we would move one step away from a Republic and one step closer to a Democracy. We would move one step closer to the tyranny of the masses.
And we know where the masses live. We know who controls them. They are in the blue states.
Yes. The Chicago Tribune is both evil and stupid. Evil to believe its proposal. And stupid to believe we do not see through it.
Time for the Old Media to die.
Just Proves how lazy the Dems are, they just want to fly into the big cities whip up support and leave, forget about the rest of the country and the people who live there.
I Think we should have a one state, one vote policy. However that state's majority of voters vote, that's how that state's one vote applies.
I agree totally. When they changed the election of senators much of the rural areas [except in states that are mostly rural] lost any real voice in their government except for their representative. For the most part their senators do not speak for them, they speak and act for the urban areas which are the areas where they get the majority of their money to get re-elected.
Texas seems to work just fine
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