Posted on 02/15/2014 6:14:40 AM PST by LD Jackson
Good. We should get rid of the Electoral College anyway. An utter and complete anachronism. And getting rid of it is about the ONLY chance we will have of ever winning the WH again.
The presidential election should not be a popularity contest.
I disagree. Doing away with the Electoral College would be a mistake and would help further the tearing down of the system designed by our Founding Fathers.
I disagree.
Isn’t this unconstitutional? The electoral college is Hamilton’s legacy in the Constitution. Better than what these uninformed OK senators have done is to based it on congressional district votes, as PA could haved done a few years ago but then backed down. And each state can go to the congressional district model on its own, no congressional oversight needed.
Yes, I agree. I trust my future and the future of my country to the denizens of New York, Chicago, Philly, Boston, Lost Angeles, San Francisco, ad nauseum. I am sure that they will make the right decicions for the republic..
Here’s a question. If regional interests, goals and desires aren’t important and worth keeping on a level playing field with other hugely populated, concentrated (geographically) areas, then why succumb to the interest of a National Popular vote?
Why have two Senators from each state? Just base it on population. And so on. Just let each little state and sparsely populated area get beat up by the big dog. I mean, what does it matter?
The fact is, the Democrats want everything to be ‘popular’ vote where LA, NYC, Chicago and all those other cities of massive infestation can lord over every good and decent area with just as much claim on this country as they have.
Allowing this serves only to make the job of Democrat cheating confined to just a few locales.
There is a reason the founders set up a two per state Senatorship, there is a reason the Electoral College forces country wide prominence. Changing this just resigns us all to the despotic whims of Democrats forever.
This gives the mega metropolitan area political machines the ability to deliver the candidate the national machine wants.
Aristotle said that slavery can exist best in a democracy.
Oklahoma, what are you doing!? That just hands your Electoral College delegation to the huge ‘Rat cities like NY, Chicago, LA, Philadelphia, etc. What happened to representing Oklahoma?
You could not be more wrong.
Huh?
The Electoral College MUST STAND and only a crazy Liberal would disagree.
Until I saw this I would have said no way.
Checking local media, I'm not seeing any report of this.
Not saying it ain't so, but "it seems highly improbable to me." Plus no reporting of it local media - I even gave the Tulsa World a hit to go see if they were reporting this.
Please post a link. Otherwise... "Color me skeptical."
Getting rid of the Electoral College is a very bad move. The only reason national candidates pay ANY attention to the smaller states is because of the EC.
Once removed - the most populous states will determine every election from then on. And, generally, the most populated states are blue.
Plus, the smaller states will have NO voice whatsoever on the national stage.
In fact, I think there should be within the states, a similar system with each county having only a certain number of votes. In Nevada, two cities determine every election outcome - Las Vegas and Reno, And often, Las Vegas alone determines how the state goes in elections (Las Vegas is a solid democrat city).
Removing the EC will put the major cities completely in control of national elections.
The fact that the writer explains that this is complicated, indicates a dearth of problems with basic US history and social sciences. The EC should be understood by everyone with a fifth grade education.
This has been a leftist behind the scenes agenda for some time. Since states control their electors, there is some solid reasoning that says this is a good end run around the constitutional process of electing presidents.
It stinks. If you have the tyranny of the 50%+1 it is almost as good as the tyranny of an individual — in fact it is better.
All bow to the god Demos
Okay thanks.
“...Why have two Senators from each state? ...”
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Since the passage of the 17th amendment, one could even ask,
“Why have senators? Why have states?”
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