Posted on 10/21/2008 11:14:49 AM PDT by AT7Saluki
...The system is a relic of the early days of the republic when electors were supposed to be independent agents exercising their judgment in choosing a presidential candidate from a list of several contenders.
Today, electors are party loyalists who almost always vote for their partys nominee.
On Friday, a group of legal scholars, political scientists, and systems specialists gathered at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a conference on the Electoral College. Their focus? How to better engineer the system...
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
That’s “Dear Great Leader” /puke
Go sell Communism some place else, Curry. The Electoral College was set up by our Founding Fathers so that all people are represented and have a say on whom they choose to lead this country, even the “rednecks” from the fly over country.
L.A., NYC, and Chicago does not reflect most American’s and what we stand for.
Here it comes again. If Obama gets in with a dem supermajority in both houses of congress you can expect a big push to get a constitutional amendment pushed out to the states.
#1—Getting us ready for BO to rid us of the pesky Electoral College? —or— #2-Nervous about a BO loss via college but winning in the popular vote? Scenario #2 will help the media realize their dream of stores, cars and city streets ablaze on Nov. 5.
Is this being trotted out because all the goldfish decided to stay home and not vote this year?
Just what we need - a few populous states dictating to the rest of the country who’s to be president. The EC was instituted for the purpose of preventing that scenario.
“Is it time to scrap the Electoral College?”
No.
Gee, it must be an election year...this topic comes up every time.
we live in a deep blue state that will give all its electoral votes to Obama.....I tell my kids they need to vote anyway just to keep the popular vote up.
I think the better thing to do would be to require all states to abide by the Electoral College system in order to prevent what some states have already promised to do: award all of their Electoral votes to the winner of the national popular voter regardless of how the people of that particular state voted. This mob rule mentality must be confronted and defeated!
The libs would write a new “constitution” declaring all sorts of rights that aren’t rights -
right to a job (where you live)
right to housing
right to healthcare
right to childcare
right to die
right to kill (abortion)
Ah, the Libs would love it. All they have to do is control the Ignorant Masses in the metropolitan areas.
Forget about small town/rural America.
This is the reason the Founding Fathers set up the Electoral College!
How to better engineer the system...to aid the Democrats.
And, for sure, giving voter fraud a chance to have a nationwide impact would do the trick.
I don't know about that either. Assume that an election ends with the loser being with 10 EVs (maybe within 20 EVs) of being the winner. Imagine the chaos as the parties look around the country to pick out specific congressional districts to contest. Sort mini-Florida 2000 or mini-Ohio 2004, but instead in dozens of congressional districts. Ouch!
Fixed.
those stores, cars, and streets will all be in "heavily democrat representation" areas.
Oh, you mean like it was before FDR?
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