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FReep This Poll: Debate: Should we keep the Electoral College?
http://www.c-span.org/classroom/poll.asp ^

Posted on 09/22/2004 7:15:40 PM PDT by notkerry

FReep This Poll: Debate: Should we keep the Electoral College?


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: electoralcollege; freep
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1 posted on 09/22/2004 7:15:41 PM PDT by notkerry
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To: notkerry

Done.34% and counting.


2 posted on 09/22/2004 7:17:31 PM PDT by ScholarWarrior
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To: notkerry
66% NO to 33%YES

Scary!

What was that Ben Franklin said...

A Republic...if you can keep it

3 posted on 09/22/2004 7:18:52 PM PDT by Verax
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To: notkerry
Silly poll. Just try to take it away!
4 posted on 09/22/2004 7:19:05 PM PDT by atomicpossum (If there are two Americas, John Edwards isn't qualified to lead either of them.©)
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To: notkerry

It's impossible for me to believe you could get 67 senators to agree to scrap the EC.


5 posted on 09/22/2004 7:19:22 PM PDT by stevem
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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.


6 posted on 09/22/2004 7:21:06 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: notkerry

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.


7 posted on 09/22/2004 7:22:24 PM PDT by A Real Dan Fan... NOT
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To: notkerry

Yes 34.77%
No 65.23%
6060 responses


8 posted on 09/22/2004 7:24:14 PM PDT by callthemlikeyouseethem
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It's impossible for me to believe you could get 67 senators to agree to scrap the EC.

I bet 38 legisilatures would be impossible to find to ratify.

9 posted on 09/22/2004 7:25:04 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative (What did Dan Rather know, and when did he know it?)
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To: stevem
It's impossible for me to believe you could get 67 senators to agree to scrap the EC.

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.

10 posted on 09/22/2004 7:25:42 PM PDT by COEXERJ145
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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.


11 posted on 09/22/2004 7:26:07 PM PDT by JLS
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They reset it.


12 posted on 09/22/2004 7:27:03 PM PDT by Arkinsaw
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To: callthemlikeyouseethem
What the hell happened? The whole thing looks like it was reset.

Yes 96.43%
No 3.57%

13 posted on 09/22/2004 7:27:40 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (And everything under the sun is in tune...but the sun is eclipsed by the moon.)
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To: A Real Dan Fan... NOT

I think I just FReeped it to death. It reset to 25 total votes!


14 posted on 09/22/2004 7:27:41 PM PDT by Dr.Syn
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I don't know, Colorado is happily on the road to cutting its own electoral throat this election.


15 posted on 09/22/2004 7:27:57 PM PDT by Arkinsaw
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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.


16 posted on 09/22/2004 7:28:38 PM PDT by kwillcox (Loftus is superb)
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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...:/


17 posted on 09/22/2004 7:28:48 PM PDT by callthemlikeyouseethem
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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.


18 posted on 09/22/2004 7:29:34 PM PDT by newheart (The Truth? You can't handle the Truth. But He can handle you.)
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To: kwillcox
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.

We are a Federal Republic. Not a democracy. Its amazing that people on FREE REPUBLIC still don't understand that, and how the Electoral College reflects that.
19 posted on 09/22/2004 7:29:35 PM PDT by Arkinsaw
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To: Dr.Syn

It was FReeped till it reset!!


20 posted on 09/22/2004 7:29:46 PM PDT by notkerry
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