Chaffee and Feinstein...a couple of liberals. Little wonder they want to undo what the Founding Fathers created.
Sure, Diane. All those small states will just roll over and agree.
What IS this garbage about? Playing to their base again?
Gaddafi was spouting off yesterday that Libya's voting along the lines of Diane's demands made his country more free than the USA.
He must be writing the bimbette's speeches.
Okay, we must eliminate the Senate itself, along with any semblance of "states" while we're at it.
It's only logical, if they want to get rid of the EC. I'm glad that Feinstein and Chafee are willing to sacrifice themselves for such a good cause.
As far as Feinswine & "bipartisan" Chaffee are concerned, the Constitution is an anachronism.
Then why did the Bush team spend so much time in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, New Hampshire, and Oregon.
Oh yeah didn't Cheney go to Hawaii for crying out loud. That is also a Democratic state with only a few electors.
Abolition of the electoral college will ensure that no candidate will pay any great amount of attention to small states. They will concentrate their efforts even more on the large population states and ignore the small ones. It is this tendency that the eectoral college was designed to counter. The Founding fathers were not stupid dead white men, despite the generally held beliefs of the liberals and MSM.
Great. Presidential Elections controlled by 5 cities. That's what we need.
Okay, how about let's make a deal (which of course the dems will never agree to)--abolish the Electoral College in exchange for a national voter id database.
No way, Jose! Generally, the College is serving the purpose for which it was designed, i.e., keeping densely populated areas from controlling the country. Note Feinstein and Chafee are from what one would consider the densely populated areas of the country. Also, you might as well consider Chafee to be
a 'Rat.
Things like this are exactly why we have the second amendment. Besides, it's never gonna happen. 2/3 of the sates agreeing to give up any say in the presidential elections? Yeah right.
Leave it to the Dems to tear this country apart.
The only problem with that is:
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.
United States Constitution, Article IV, Section 4
Since these two morons are openly advocating a willful violation of the very document that created the government they are a part of and that they are sworn to obey and defend, I'm sure impeachment hearings will begin post haste. I'll be sure to turn on CBS News tonight to see how they're proceding...
Add this proposal to get rid of the electoral system to the 700-plus previous proposals.
We can only hope that Condi Rice will come home and run against Feinstein in '06!
Boxer & Feinstein, Dumb & Dumber!
Chafee and Feinstein are off their meds again.
I would rather go the opposite way and have 2 EVs at large in a state plus one for each House district like Maine and Nebraska. That way vote fraud at one location could affect at most 3 EVs instead of a whole state's worth.
"Under the current system, the only states that get any candidate visits are the battleground states," said Chafee. "As a Rhode Islander . . . I'd like to see the presidential candidates make an investment in Rhode Island. The last election came down to just Ohio and Florida."
Bad example: candidates will still ignore Rhode Island. They'll be in NYC, Chicago and L.A.
I think it's very funny how people fall all over themselves in an effort to be oppressed by the country that was founded by the evil white man.