why... so NYC, Boston, LA, San FAG, Chicago, Detroit, Philly, Baltimore and Atlanta can elect all the presidents from now on???
Posted on 08/31/2012 7:56:54 PM PDT by Kolath
Former vice president Al Gore is calling for an end to the Electoral College — the system that cost him the presidency in 2000.
Gore said that many voters who live outside the dozen or so battleground states are cheated by the system that allocates delegates from the state level on a winner-take-all basis. He called for presidential elections to be determined by the popular vote.
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Al Gore is probably sorry he took the initiative of creating the electoral college.
Who’s Al Gore?
ManBearPig is down! Call the Waambulance!
In related news, Al Gore reportedly called for changing the rules of baseball so that the team with the most hits wins the game (because choosing the winner based on which team scores the most runs is ‘undemocratic’).
Hey Al - you and the horse you rode in on.
Gore is such a tool!! Any time my liberal friends complain over the 2000 election I simply present them with a fact smackdown. Gore lost 5 states that Clinton easily won twice. Arkansas (Slick’s home state), West Virginia (”Sheets” Byrd’s home state), Tennessee (his own home state), Missouri (where Democrat Mel Carnahan was elected posthumously to the Senate that year), and finally New Hampshire. Had Gore won just one of these aforementioned states he would have been the 43rd president. Florida would not even have mattered. The electoral college works just fine and gives a voice to lesser populated states. Otherwise, with only having to win a popularity vote the candidates could focus all their energy on the most populated cities and not be concerned with “flyover land.”
why... so NYC, Boston, LA, San FAG, Chicago, Detroit, Philly, Baltimore and Atlanta can elect all the presidents from now on???
That's like saying "If England were a monarchy, then the Queen could decree any law she wanted for the country". Having a monarchy doesn't mean the monarch has absolute power to do whatever they want, and having a democracy doesn't mean the voters have absolute power to pass anything they want. In most cases, they decide things indirectly and delegate power to others. The electoral college is a perfect example of that.
Was the electoral college the third or fourth college that algore flunked out of?
12 years later and this loser is still sore? LOL. This reminds me of an old bud of mine that 15 yrs later, he’s still sore his ex-GF from high school is married and has kids.
Total nonsense....do you want the throngs of idiots in New York and California to solely elect our leaders???? The electoral college gives proportional representation to all!
This is part of their plan. They know that the are losing the election. They have been pressuring the polling companies to give them the results that they want and to over sample Democrats. When Gallop indicated that Mitt Romney was was ahead in the electoral votes, last week, the Obama justice dept started proceedings to sue Gallop. They are whining and lying about Republican voter intimidation. They have the courts under their control, including the Supreme Court, the majority of which does not believe in God give rights.
The plan seems to be that they will lose the election and sue to over turn it, claiming that Obama would have won the popular vote if the Republicans had let every vote count.
Roberts will throw the election to Obama.
Prima facie evidence the Electoral College should be retained. This issue is easy to demagogue but voters in low-population states had better beware! Eliminating the College would give all electoral power to high-population states and big union-run cities.
They also have a damn good QB and a Safety that Mel Kieper Jr thinks will be drafted in the 1st round.
The electoral college prevents corruption from crossing state boundaries. No amount of cheating in Chicago can cross the state boundary to affect the electoral votes in Indiana.
That is why the Democrats have to do away with it. They would rather than have to cheat in several states, and have their weaker organizations stopped and exposed, they would prefer that their stronger organizations in states that they have already corrupted can dominate. Even if their opponents win, it would only be by matching corruption, and good government would be doomed.
Fifty, count 'em, 50 sets of watertight doors.
I’m good with one delegate per county. Let’s pass that constitutional amendment right now.
There’s nothing to stop states from allocating their delegates proportionately. I’d suggest California, New York and Illinois give it a try. ;-)
The electoral college makes it more difficult for a numerous interest group whose beliefs are alien to our ideals to overwhelm the system with a lock-step vote. I think that this probably was the intent of the founders.
One gross example: Obama’s Justice Dept disallowing polling places to check voter I.D.’s with the obvious intention of having his constituents and illegal aliens vote multiple times.
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