Silly poll. Just try to take it away!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.
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 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.
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.
My sociology professor told the class that Gore really won. She also promoted the populus vote and expressed to the class how the popular vote is better. I began explaining how the electoral college worked, but was cut off.
Later, I gave a speech on the republic and electoral college. I used the 2000 electoral map to explain how it really was, why the Founding Fathers chose this method, and gave them other stats. The class and instructor were impressed and many of the students asked questions.
The students told me they thought my speech would be boring but found it interesting. I guess that is one benefit of going to college in your fifties.
Every project and research paper I have done has some connection to my conservatism. I figure that's one way to get my views across and effective.
This poll is being DU'd. The "Yes" just went from 95 to 89 % in a matter of minutes!
In all fairness the idea was to balance out the small population states versus large population states. My biggest problem with it is the apportionment based on raw population + 2, even if you do not vote your vote is counted and your vote if you do vote may actually go to the other candidate. Any way you look at it in that manner it is bad. But Bush beat Gore so that was good.
C-SPAN has one lousy online poll.
The Electoral Votes should be awarded automatically to the winner of each state, and should not be dependent upon the honor and integrity of the Electors. We've had "rogue electors" a few times recently, including one from DC in 2000 who abstained rather than voting for Gore. If we keep this antiquated ceremonial procedure in place, the next time we have an extremely close race, we're asking for trouble.
No. We lucked out last time and got a conservative.
People need to bear the consequences of their choices.
LOL, the poll started over.
Colorado is voting on splitting our electoral votes, and this would go into effect beginning with this election. Our governor, Republican Bill Owens, is going to air ads against this. It'd mean that Kerry would get some of Colorado's 9 votes whether he wins or not.