Why We Need The Electoral College

Common Sense Evaluation ^

[Freedom56v2]

Ironically, on first day back in session, it is Rep Steve Cohen of Tennessee who just introduced bill to eliminate electoral college. Tennessee?!?! Wow...

Also, in 2018 and 2017 he introduced bills to impeach President Trump.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jan/3/steve-cohen-introduces-constitutional-amendment-ab/

[Yulee]

I think, in practice, that this is still the case.
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Currently in most states, the candidate, with the most votes, receives all electoral votes (winner take all).

If allocated according to the winner in each Congressional District, the candidate with the majority of Congressional Districts won would receive the majority of the electoral votes. The remaining electoral votes would go to the opposing candidate.

For example in California there would have been electoral votes for Trump, not all 55 going to Hillary.

Looking across the nation Trump would have gotten more electoral votes than allocated by winner take all.

We probably would have had a few more Republican Presidents than in the past, if electoral votes were allocated according to the vote in each Congressional District.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Great point!

[Political Junkie Too]

I'm not talking about electoral votes, I'm talking about the actual people who are ultimately selected as Electors.

Check out your state party's process for applying for, and becoming, an Elector to the Electoral College.

I'm suggesting that, when it comes down to actual people, the parties do select electors who apply from a cross-section of state districts.

It's not just the numbers, there are people behind these numbers.

-PJ

[Verginius Rufus]

The states chose to go to a winner-take-all system for their electoral votes...in the earliest elections that was not the case. At least in some cases it means that that state will get more attention during the campaign.

Instead of creating the Electoral College, the Founding Fathers could have said that the President will be chosen by the voters of the five largest cities. That is essentially what the enemies of the Electoral College are trying to bring about.

[SunkenCiv]

(reprise from February)

California	55
Texas	38
Florida	29
New York	29
Illinois	20
Pennsylvania	20
Ohio	18
Georgia	16
Michigan	16
North Carolina	15
New Jersey	14
Virginia	13
Washington	12
Arizona	11
Indiana	11
Massachusetts	11
Tennessee	11
Maryland	10
Minnesota	10
Missouri	10
Wisconsin	10
Alabama	9
Colorado	9
South Carolina	9
Kentucky	8
Louisiana	8
Connecticut	7
Oklahoma	7
Oregon	7
Arkansas	6
Iowa	6
Kansas	6
Mississippi	6
Nevada	6
Utah	6
Nebraska	5
New Mexico	5
West Virginia	5
Hawaii	4
Idaho	4
Maine	4
New Hampshire	4
Rhode Island	4
Alaska	3
Delaware	3
District of Columbia	3
Montana	3
North Dakota	3
South Dakota	3
Vermont	3
Wyoming	3

538 total, 270 needed to elect, figures from 2010 census, US Census Bureau -- 55+38+29+29+20+20+18+16+16+15+14=270, thus, 11 largest states, California to New Jersey.