[AT7Saluki]

Methinks perhaps the DBM knows something more than they're reporting?

[jersey117]

What is DBM?

[xcamel]

Is it time to scrap the Biased Press?

(leaving the EC alone....)

[Obadiah]

Uh oh, Democrats are NERVOUS!

[Vaquero]

its time to scrap PMSNBC.

[Steely Tom]

Wup. It's time for the first "is it time to scrap the electoral college" article.

First of many, I should say.

[Mr Fuji]

Obviously this means they believe “The 0” is going to lose the electoral college but might win the popular vote.

[Jagman]

If it will help the great leader, by all means!

[The_Reader_David]

The answer is no. Though it might be a salutory reform to force all states to go onto the Maine/Nebraska system.

[TADSLOS]

The librats bring this up every Presidential election cycle.

[txroadkill]

oooops looks like MSNBC knows nObama isn’t going to get the electoral votes

[TommyDale]

The DemocRATs would love to scrap the Electoral College, since they would never lose another Presidential Election.

Of course, they would love to scrap the entire U.S. Constitution.

[rahbert]

How to better engineer the system...

All I needed to read.

[shove_it]

Not just no - HELL NO!

[rfp1234]

I think it’s time to short-sell 1000 shares of (NBC-owner) General Electric.

[Huck]

...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.

INCORRECT! It's a relic of a time when states were actually their own little republics, or commonwealths. A time when the Union was a Union of free, independent states. A time when the Fed gubmint was thought to only be responsible for those collective tasks enumerated in the Constitution that required a united purpose. In short, it's from a time when the Constitution meant something.

[Paine in the Neck]

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.

[albie]

#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.

[SkyDancer]

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.

[swain_forkbeard]

“Is it time to scrap the Electoral College?”

No.

[jagusafr]

Gee, it must be an election year...this topic comes up every time.