Posted on 08/31/2012 6:57:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Former Vice President Al Gore called for an end to the Electoral College tonight.
"It's always tough to amend the constitution, and very risky to do so," he said on Current TV, which he co-founded. "But I think its time, I think our country would be stronger and better if it went according to the popular vote."
In the 2000 presidential election, Gore won the popular vote but lost the electoral to George W. Bush.
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Really AL!?!?!
I am of the opinion that the electoral college needs to be strengthened. Namely by altering the Constitution so that each congressional district determines it’s own electoral vote. The vote awarded to the candidate that receives a majority in that district. If no majority, then a run off 30 days later between the two candidates with the most votes. The remaining votes (2 per state) would be awarded to the candidate that receives 55% or more of the vote. Otherwise, split between the top two candidates.
Further, require citizenship, photo id, and proof of residence to register. Purge the voting rolls Feb 1st following a Presidential election. Require photo ID to cast a ballot or hold as a provisional ballot until right to vote can be verified. Require that all ballots be turned in for counting no later than 2 hrs after the last voter has been cast and allow no other ballots to be accepted after that time.
Sadly, Fred Thompson is on this too.
No can do. The electorial is mandated by the Consitution.
3/4 of the states have 20 Electoral votes or less. You need 3/4 of the states to ratify an amendment. 3/4 of the states aren’t going to vote to screw themselves.
RE: All Gore should spend less time in the Artic; his brain seesm frozen.
Respect, more respect, this is a Nobel Prize winner you’re talking about...
Same with Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama, Nobel winners all !!
Or as I call them, Yankees and Laker’s fans.
Does Al Gore realize that if the electoral college wasn’t in effect in 2000, he might have lost anyway? Bush would have devoted a lot of resources toward getting every last voter out in Texas and other states that he had in the bag.
It’s possible Obama might lose the popular vote and win the electoral college this year. Some polls are suggesting that’s the case. If that does happen, Obama would have won fair and square.
Wasn’t tehre some controversy over whether Algor actually did win the popular vote?
Changing the way we tally votes will not be a static change to the way we vote. it will radically change the way people campaign, and will motivate a different set of voters.
Changing the EC to be mandated winner-take-all in many states was supposed to be good for the Dems as opposed to a proportinal EC, but things changed after that move, now it’s not so much an advantage.
I understand that chickens want an end to KFC, Popeye’s, Chick-Fil-A and Church’s.
I think his decision to protest the electoral college by eating until his bodyweight matched the number of electoral votes demonstrates how serious he is about this.
Laws like that used to be on the books until the late 1930's. The problem is that it, itself, enabled corruption. A little sabotage from one party that delays the delivery of ballots from a particular district and....I think you see why we did away with it. In today's world it would come in the form of DOS attacks or cut lines instead of hijacked vehicles, but the result would be the same.
Poor Al. The moron doesn’t understand WHY we have the electoral college. The boy just isn’t very bright. Give it a rest, Al. Your days are past.
Given the amount of fraud in places like Philly and Chicago, and the fact that absentee ballots were never counted in the deep blue states, Gore may very well *have* gotten fewer legitimate popular votes than GWB.
He wouldn’t be saying this if he thought 270 was a slam dunk for Obama.
I’ll trade you - first repeal the 17th amendment and I’ll consider it.
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