[Baladas]

here's another 2nd generation ME immigrant that's in higher academia and is also apparently insane. This scheme would take a constitutional amendment which would NEVER get enough states to ratify it but never mind that.

[Pox]

Once they attempt to implement this “Pact” when they achieve the correct number of states, the lawsuits that will be filed should put a permanent end to these shenanigans.

We’ll see.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

That pesky Constitution.
Always in the way of a good time (bloody tyranny).

[Trump20162020]

Not really. As even Nate Silver wrote, they’re rapidly running out of low-hanging fruit states. Like this movement has less electoral votes right now than big loser Hillary Clinton received in 2016 (232).

Until a state that voted for Trump in 2016 signs on, it’s really not worth thinking about.

[packagingguy]

“The U.S. Electoral College is, by a quite considerable margin, the most unfathomably stupid democratic institution in the world.”

Then how is the UN Security Council any different? China, Russia, United Kingdom and France are permanent members.

Large countries like Indonesia, India and Brazil are only non-permanent members even though they have enormous populations.

[rfp1234]

This unfathomably stupid professor thinks we are not a constitutional representative republic, and evidently doesn’t give a RAT’s @$$ about states’ rights.

[Tzimisce]

Kon-sty-two-shun?

What’s that?

[toddausauras]

They’re crazy stupid and dangerous. Yet this bozo thinks the electoral college is “stupid”.

[toddausauras]

They’re crazy stupid and dangerous. Yet this bozo thinks the electoral college is “stupid”.

[NorthMountain]

The U.S. Electoral College is, by a quite considerable margin, the most unfathomably stupid democratic institution in the world.

It is not a "democratic" institution; it is a federal republican institution. It is a brilliant method of preventing a democratic tyranny..

It has already malfunctioned twice this century

Indeed, it has functioned properly twice, ensuring ALL Americans have a voice, not just those living in densely populated cities.

[Gay State Conservative]

I'm no Constitutional scholar but it seems to me that this is unconstitutional. States can't enter into agreements of this kind with other states without the approval of Congress.For example: the states of New York and New Jersey were able to form "The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey" (which manages bridges,tunnels and airports in both states) only because Congress approved.

It seems to me that this will have to be reviewed by SCOTUS at some point.

[PBRCat]

Consider the source. The author is a professor at Roosevelt University: a bastion of leftism in Chicago since its founding in 1945.

[Sacajaweau]

Amend the constitution is the only way....and it will never happen.

[Puppage]

Oh, goodie! Now the island of Manhattan can usurp the entire state of Wyoming. The Electoral College is one of the most brilliant things ever designed.

[kiryandil]

David Faris thinks the US is a democracy.

Fail.

[hanamizu]

“...the most unfathomably stupid democratic institution in the world.”

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Yes, the idea that the states, regardless of population, have some sort of say in the national government is really ‘stupid’. /s

Remind me, Prof. Faris, how is the PM of the UK elected to office? Is it the party that gets the most popular votes or the party that gets the most votes in Parliament? And what are your feelings about the Senate?

[JSM_Liberty]

No it isn’t

[rdl6989]

No bias at all in that article . / Sarcasm

The author is nuts.

[Openurmind]

“This scheme would take a constitutional amendment”

Hate to tell you, but the Constitution is gone. Biden or congress will just dictate it away and the courts will let them do it.

[Rummyfan]

The end of the Electoral College is the end of the nation, period. After over two hundred years of it being a perfectly acceptable system, suddenly it must be abolished? No and hell no.

[SkyDancer]

So a couple of states will determine who’ll be president?