You matter, but your vote might not (Cynthia Tucker Alert)

The Atlanta Journal Constitution ^ | October 6, 2004 | Cynthia Tucker

[where's_the_Outrage?]

when a president is elected by an overwhelming popular vote

I guess she feels the 0.6% total vote count more for Gore is overwhelming.

I wasn't sure about the electorial college until I say the Bush vote by counties. (can someone post the map, I put mine somewhere for safe keeping).

With Cynthia's plan, it seems candidates would concentrate on population centers.

[Izzy Dunne]

Seems to me the same argument applies to the Senate - Not everybody who is represented by, say, Senator Kerry, agrees with him. Therefore their opinions don't count.

The same for the House of Reps - let's have a TRUE democracy, she says.

Horse Puckey.

[southernerwithanattitude]

Hey cynthia I've got a better one for you. One electorial vote per state. How about that one huh? More conservitive states than liberal ones? That wouldn't work for you would it?This is why the founding fathers where so much smarter than most of the people are now.

[ladyinred]

The commies are scared.

[BIGZ]

The liberals have spent 75 years trying to make Blacks equal. Lets be truthful about this, one program after another, Affirmative action, EEOC, Black Caucus, etc. nothing works. Until Blacks help themselves there will be no improvement.

Cynthia, Socialism wont help.

[crazyhorse691]

She is an overeducated snob that looks at the Constitution as a quaint piece of paper framed by elitists secretly opposed to democracy. Naturally, her ideas to update that quaint document would favor her political beliefs because it is reality. Idiot.

[JacksonCalhoun]

The reason Georgia is out of play is because the Democratic party has become the party of the great unwashed 60's retreads, putting it far to the left of most of Georgia (just ask Zell Miller). In this way, the Electoral College gives Georgia more power, because its rejection of Woodstock-era leftism counts in the election instead of being diluted by the radical big cities. Just not the way Cindy-poo wants it.

[Callahan]

A United STATE of America would surely serve the purposes of the globalists would it not? Why isn't this woman complaining about the Senate. My Senators represent only a fraction of the people represented by Barbara Boxer but their votes are weighted equally.

[LC1951]

Living in Atlanta, I'm exposed to her moronic mutterings more than my sanity can handle. She's a natural byproduct of affirmative action, with an attitude.

[Nasty McPhilthy]

In regards to Ms Tucker, the term “Sexual Intellectual” comes to mind.

[okie01]

If there was once a good reason for the existence of the Electoral College, it has long since disappeared.

Wrong again, Cynthia.

The "good reason" in 2000 was named Al Gore, Jr.

And that was a very good reason, indeed.

[hyperpoly8]

Small states would never see a Presidential candidate without the Electoral College system.

[steve8714]

We are a Republic, not a democracy. If we were a democracy, blacks would have been denied the vote perhaps even now.

[redbaiter]

Idiot.

[hawkiye]

What a liberal piece of literary garbage! What this neo-commie fails to understand is that the founders where not trying to create a pure democracy. Which of course really equals "mob rules" (and of course they they want to rule). The Founders were trying to strike a balance between democracy and maximum freedom.

The majority does not have the right to vote away the rights of the minority as these neo-commies believe, hence the Constitution and Bill of Rights "standard" was meant to protect those natural rights from the mob.

The electoral college is part of the same principle on a larger scale showing the genius of the founders in leveling the playing field for lessor populated states in voting for federal leadership. Hence the mob cannot oppress the minority and seemingly legitimize it by proclaiming it the will of the people via election.

If we went with a straight popular vote CA and NY would always elect our Presidents and America and the grand experiment in maximum freedom while respecting natural rights as a standard even untouchable by voting would end. It would be a disaster for America if the electoral college were to be abolished.

The neo-commies will never stop trying though!

[JacksonCalhoun]

Well at least you are a little ahead of NC in purging your 'rats. And Melvin R. Watt is as bad as McKinney, just not such a kook

[ShandaLear]

I will vote for Bush in Washington State full well knowing that the state will most likely go to Kerry. Do I feel disenfranchised? Do I think my vote won't count? Of course not. I take pride in the fact that I am allowed my say.

Heck, even if this were decided by popular vote, someone is going to win and someone is going to lose. Lots of voters won't get their way in the process.

[where's_the_Outrage?]

or has a government job can not vote BECAUSE they are bought votes.

This would disqualify the military.