Silly poll. Just try to take it away!
Posted on 09/22/2004 7:15:40 PM PDT by notkerry
FReep This Poll: Debate: Should we keep the Electoral College?
Done.34% and counting.
Scary!
What was that Ben Franklin said...
A Republic...if you can keep it
Silly poll. Just try to take it away!
It's impossible for me to believe you could get 67 senators to agree to scrap the EC.
You'd never get 35 small population states to ratify it. The question is posed only by socialists with no respect for the constitution or for states' rights.
Just for the heck of it, I backed up and re-clicked 15 times. The "poll" continued to add my votes. It is too easily manipulated to be even remotely accurate.
Yes 34.77%
No 65.23%
6060 responses
I bet 38 legisilatures would be impossible to find to ratify.
Well, you're talking about the Senate. I doubt it could ever pass the House. Also, no way in hell that 3/4 of the states would ratify such an amendment.
I wasted my time and voted. But it does not matter really. I would bet that the legislature NH, VT, MT, SD, ND, RI, DEL, WY, ID, NM, NV, HI, DE, WV, UT, AK, and NE are not voting their states out of the potential to matter in presidential elections.
That is 17 states with 5 or less electoral votes, so even if a couple have temporary bout of legislative insanity, there are plenty to stop ratification that takes 38 states. In addition there are other states like KS, AR, IA, MS who have one or a few more than 5 electoral votes that are not likely to vote to let CA, TX, NY, FL and IL control the election every four years.
They reset it.
Yes 96.43%
No 3.57%
I think I just FReeped it to death. It reset to 25 total votes!
I don't know, Colorado is happily on the road to cutting its own electoral throat this election.
If every state legislature passed a law appointing electors to the winner of the national vote, then the pointless electoral college would be moot. And once about 35 states agreed to this proposal, it guarantees that that candidate with the most national votes is elected.
This poll is seriously messed up. I refreshed and it showed 1 vote counted (100% yes), then 38 total votes. That was after it showed 6060 votes...:/
Should we keep the electoral college?
I sure hope so. I just got an e-mail offering me a PhD from the Electoral College. I sent them $79.95 so I sure hope they are around for a few years. They even accepted my dissertation topic on the impact of Geritol on vote counting in Florida.
It was FReeped till it reset!!
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