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Assemblyman Tom Umberg, a Santa Ana Democrat who chairs the Assembly Election and Redistricting Committee, said the basic premise is understandable even to children.
"When you're in first grade, if the person who got the second-most votes became class leader, the kids would recognize that this is not a fair system," he said.

Well, he certainly proves his implicit premise. Trouble is he's a grownup, not in first grade.
First of all our country is not a first-grade class.
Secondly, first-grade classes do not consist of free independent states agreeing to join a Republic, a concept that takes a little more sophistication to understand than can be found in the first grade.

I would go on and into the importance of a limited central government, a concept too "grown up" politically, economically and socially, for Umberg and his classmates. Suffice to say that, during the founding of our country, the electoral system was argued at length, and has been with us 203 years for very important reasons.

If those reasons are no longer valid, let the second graders of the country try to fix it the proper way: through a Constitutional Amendment.

[don-o]

Secondly, first-grade classes do not consist of free independent states agreeing to join a Republic, a concept that takes a little more sophistication to understand than can be found in the first grade.

Oh, were that still so. See ya on the WONA threads.

Yet as long as that idea is still out there, "Keep Hope Alive!"