The Electoral College Debate

Townhall.com ^ | October 17, 2018 | Walter E. Williams

[jjotto]

Huh? All Congressional Disricts have 700-750k population, except a couple that cover entire states.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"This will probably last until the first Republican wins both the popular and the electoral vote. Maybe even as long as 2020."

George Bush won the popular and electoral vote in 2004 but it didn't matter. We're still talking about it. The modern Democrat is only concerned with power and any means by which they can acquire it (hook or crook) is fine with them. This is the culmination of the Clinton era. Do and say whatever it takes to get elected and consequences to the country be damned.

[DuncanWaring]

Mathematical proof of the merits of the Electoral College:

Math Against Tyranny.

[Alas Babylon!]

You are right.

Dusty Road, did you REALLY mean Florida? Even Bush won that one (despite algore trying to flip in post-election).

[Dusty Road]

Didn’t mean it to sound that way, I was referring mainly to states with high liberal area’s. Here in Texas there would be certain districts lost to the dems but Cali, Oregon and other blue states will lose some to the republicans. With winner take all red districts in those states lose all representation.

[American Infidel]

If these clowns truly want to abolish the Electoral College there is a legislative mechanism by which this can be done.

It simply requires passage by 2/3 of the House and Senate plus ratification by 75% of the states. If they think they have the votes to do this, then they should lobby their legislative representatives to seriously propose it.

Needless to say; it will go nowhere, and 99% of the population probably has no idea how a constitutional amendment is facilitated or that a C.A. is required if they want to "abolish" the electoral college. Like everything else they whine about, they just want the talking point to rile up their low-info base.

This is why the left relies on the courts to be their de-facto legislative branch.

[Pagey]

"...Were we to choose the president and vice president under a popular vote, the outcome of presidential races would always be decided by a few highly populated states. They would be states such as California, Texas, Florida, New York, Illinois and Pennsylvania, which contain 134.3 million people, or 41 percent of our population. Presidential candidates could safely ignore the interests of the citizens of Wyoming, Alaska, Vermont, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Delaware. Why? They have only 5.58 million Americans, or 1.7 percent of the U.S. population..."

It really doesn't get much Clearer than the above, as to how Smart our forefathers truly were. They knew people like the Scum Left would arise someday.

[Uncle Sham]

We don’t need an amendment to “undo” the Seventeenth Amendment. We need states to reclaim the representation THEY concede to the popular vote election of senators to Congress. They can implement qualification requirements at the state level that allow their own preferred way of choosing Senatorial candidates that would then be elected by the popular vote of their citizens. Instead of choosing a particular person as Senator, they would be choosing a pool of candidates who had passed their test for the office who then could be put before the public for popular votes. This way, you get the power back into the hands of the States AND you comply with the popular vote requirement of the Seventeenth Amendment.

[Svartalfiar]

I’d be all for the Electoral College being revamped where each Congressional District gets one Electoral Vote and each State gets 2 Electoral Votes. We have 2 States that already do this. But as long as we have the situation where California can have winner-take-all but Texas be split-up (or vice versa) then that’ll never happen unless it happens across-the-board.

Unfortunately, a large number of red states have gone in the complete opposite direction - legislation that awards their state's electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote. Irrespective of how their state votes. Granted, this doesn't kick in until enough states do it to have the majority of electoral votes, but still really dumb...