[jocon307]

I don't see much likelihood of Kerry winning the popular vote but losing the EC. If (GOD FORBID!, please God, do NOT let this happen!) Bush should win the popular vote but lose the EC, then it will be the exact reverse, party wise, of 2000 and I doubt there will be any movement to get rid of the EC, because everyone will see the (dis)advantage cuts both ways.

And anyway, it would require amending the Constitution, and the little states will NEVER go for it, liberal or conservative though their populations may be, in this they will be 100% united. And who can blame them? Who wants NY, CALI, TX bossing around the whole country?

[reVan]

I live in Wisconsin and I do not want to be ruled by Liberal New York and California. Hell it is hard enough to be ruled by the People's Republic of Madison and it's satelite state the City of Milwaukee. If people abandoned the electoral college, then I want my state to leave the union or else I am moving to a state that would.

[auntdot]

Thanks CThomasFan, the smaller states would never commit political and economic suicide by agreeing to end the Electoral College.

The founding fathers did not want the most populated states to dominate the smaller states. If that were not the case, the needs of the smaller states would be ignored.

[okie01]

And who can blame them? Who wants NY, CALI, TX bossing around the whole country?

I wouldn't trust New York or California with that kind of power.

But Texas...?