Actually, it’s the WORST thing Republicans could do.
It “may” have mattered ONLY in this last election, which is a really bad frame of reference for making this far reaching change.
“It “may” have mattered ONLY in this last election, which is a really bad frame of reference for making this far reaching change.”
Explain yourself - the previous election went the same way. This makes sense to me as a general rule. The presidential election would basically follow the congressional one. It also would make the races much harder to predict.
“Actually, it’s the WORST thing Republicans could do.”
Unequivocally yes. Apportionment by CD is one thing. Apportionment by popular vote, quite another.
Agreed
I "might" make for a short term gain but in the long run defiantly a bad move.
I tend to agree with you Larry. Our Founder’s brilliance is in everything they implemented. The changes made to our founding principles such as the 17th amendment are why we are in the position we’re in now.
Leave the electoral college alone but push for ratification of Article The First (Google it), and watch the nation turn around in just one election cycle! Pushing for the repeal of the 17th amendment would be helpful as well.
Finally, return to the founding principles, call for a special session of Congress to review the entirety of the US Code and repeal laws that are unconstitutional by the original intent of our nation’s founding documents, and force the closure of unconstitutional executive branch offices (I.e. DoE, EPA, ATF, and the NLRB), and we will be in a much better place.
Pie in the sky, I know, but someone has to say it.
I disagree. What turns many states into "Blue" states is high Dem voting in major cities (often accompanied with vote fraud). Doing this would mean that the Dems would only get the electoral votes of the big cities' congressional districts, and the rest of the state would likely go R.
The worst thing?
I don’t know any serious student of politics who would today propose the U.S. system of electing a President.
The system was designed at a time when it was thought that voters were not able to make an informed direct choice of a President. So, they would vote for Electors (or, even more indirectly, they’d vote for state legislators who would vote for Electors).
During the early part of the 19th Century, the individual states moved from various methods of appointing their Electors to the slate method. They did this because each of them wanted to maximize their impact on the outcome. They didn’t shift because they thought this was in the national interest.
It is true that under the U.S. Constitution, the U.S. became the world’s greatest country, but that is because of such things as (1) our private-property based, market-oriented economy, (2) our system of checks and balances, and (3) the accountability of our elected officials to the people through periodic elections; and, it is not because of the particular way to which we have evolved for electing the President.
“Actually, it’s the WORST thing Republicans could do.”
Come back to us G Larry, and offer proof on how this is the WORST thing. We’re not brainless liberals, and we need more than your emotional claim that this is the WORST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this country was designed to keep all politics local...
this changed with the 17th amendment..
I see this as a return to local power...
I am for it wholeheartedly