Posted on 11/30/2016 4:26:05 PM PST by kevcol
During a statement on Tuesday, former Vice President Al Gore argued that the Electoral College should be abolished in favor of a popular vote system.
Gore said he supported keeping the Electoral College even after the 2000 election, because it tied the states together, but now he has changed his mind and thinks the Electoral College should be eliminated.
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Abolishing the EC would turn the government entirely over to NY and LA and Chicago.
Ozone Man has inhaled too much Ozone.
Gore thinks he knows better than the founding fathers?
I would only agree to this if we could break off any city/metro area with over 2 million people as it’s own country.
You know, create a bunch of European Liechtensteins out of the liberal hell holes.
They can have their popular vote and the rest of us can keep the collage
Algore is Special.
even for much as this is Algore, fact is had Kerry polled a little bit better on terrorism in 2004 in OH (http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/states/OH/P/00/epolls.0.html) he’d have been President but also lost the popular vote.
I’m not in favor of getting rid of the EC; it’s good because it punishes those who try to force liberal ideals on rural plain folk, tho potentially there should be a bucket of electoral votes a candidate gets for winning the popular vote, say 10% of the pre-existing 538. Trump still would’ve won 2016 (tho the EC count would’ve been closer but a win is a win) and there’d have been no risk of Kerry coming within 3% in OH to the Presidency in 2004 (3% is the MoE in most polls).
while yes, 4 out of 5 times the winners of EC/PV splits have been Republicans, someday a Democrat POTUS will win a POTUS election and lose the popular vote. This is a good insulation against it.
Funny you say that, because I have to said the same in another post.
We get a lot of students here in FL, and many of them vote as you say, but if you look at Alachua County it is Dem, but only because of the students at Gainesville.
Shut up, you bloated anus - nobody cares what you think.
It seems that every four years the anti-Electoral College nut cases come out from their caves.
Here are some numbers as to why a popular vote for President is a bad idea.
1. Of the top 100 US cities based upon population 76 have Democrat mayors.
2. The top 100 US cities have 61 million residents and the 76 with Democrat mayors have 50 million residents.
We can look across the USA and where do we have the most problems. Yes, in the big cities. So only a Democrat fool would want the 50 million residents in the Democrat controlled big cities, who cannot even run their cities, to be in control of the Presidential election.
Now, that tag line is one to envy! “Schlongs” says it all.
A keeper, for sure.
“Arf! Arf!”, said the Crazed Sex Poodle.
“Nope.
It would suppress the votes in Middle America.”
they would feel like non-democrat voters living in maryland do
Actually the fat man is beginning to resemble Baron Harkonnen. ( Dune reference)
You know this presupposes that the Republican candidate can’t win the popular vote in an explicit contest for the popular vote.
I see the argument but it’s far from a sure thing.
STILL a poor loser. The race between him and Obama as the worst president would probably been a close one.
Hey Al, how come New York is not under water yet?
This guy is a Nostradumbass.
Is he still in office? He needs to just sot down and enjoy his retirement. No one CARES what he thinks.
Go and release your “chakra”, idiot.
Shut her piehole Albert, the hot air you’re putting out is killing polar bears and stuff.
Would ‘Stimulate Public Participation’
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so would free cigarettes and full body massages, maybe a limo ride to the polling place.. Stimulate me, NO wait, Thanks but no thanks, Al.
Corrected, but your point is still right: abolishing the Electoral College ain't gonna happen.
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