[Redleg Duke]

You are damned right it is undemocratic. What this bozo doesn’t seem to comprehend is that we live in a Representative Republic, not a democracy!

[sinanju]

Don’t assume the SF Chronic is actually defending the Electoral College. They just want a nationwide “reform” undertaken rather than piecemeal.
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“For instance, the efforts of John Koza - a genetic programming professor at Stanford University - to circumvent the Electoral College in favor of having each state ensure its electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote merit attention.”
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Of course libs want to trash the Electoral system. Then national candidates will concentrate on a handful of large (liberal) cities and to hell with flyover country.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Yep, undemocratic just like the Framers intended. Republicanism all the way!

[11th Commandment]

Actually, we live in a Federal Republic and the purpose of the electoral college was to protect the states from the federal government. It has not been a factor since the emergence of the party system; however, it has recently served a purpose of protecting rural areas from urban liberal population concentration.

With the passage of the 17th amendment, federalism has weakened to an anemic state.

[ran20]

We need less democracy not more. The system was designed to have a seperation of powers and natural checks and balances. Let me give you an example.. If governor’s could appoint senators like before, instead of elections.. we’d find the Senate much much more pro states rights.

The one place that seems to protect rights at the end of the day is the supreme court.. like cancelling anti free speech parts of the campaign finance reform act. The supreme court another un-elected body.

[stylin19a]

um...Maine & Nebraska already award electoral votes by congressional district. and it seems like a good method.

Awarding electoral votes is a state issue. States can do damn near whatever they want in this respect.

Since electors are awarded to each state based on the number of House seats plus the number of Senate seats (always two) the district method allocates one electoral vote to each congressional district.

The winner of each district is awarded one electoral vote, and the winner of the state-wide vote is then awarded the state’s remaining two electoral votes.

I’m thinking if Pres. Bush had this going for him in all states, he wins both elections in an electoral landslide.

[Yo-Yo]

This is exactly what Nebraska and Maine do. It is the only way to apportion Electoral Votes to more closely reflect the popular vote without changing the Constitution.

I fully support these efforts and think the practice should be spread to all 50 states.