Let's abolish the Electoral College

NY Newsday ^ | April 20, 2004 | WILLIAM BENOIT

[Godfollow]

If that ever happened then New York, Caw-lee-fornia, and Florida and just a few other states would be all that's needed to elect a president. All a presidential candidate would need to do is ensure that those states "would get well cared for" as a campaign promise... all other states need not apply or vote, so they would loose voice in the governance of our nation.

Also, you'd find more and more liberals moving to those states, knowing that by concentrating their power they could rule and we would no longer be a democracy.

[familyofman]

"...you'd find more and more liberals moving to those states, knowing that by concentrating their power they could rule and we would no longer be a democracy."

Do you really think enough 'liberals' or 'conservatives' would move to influence the outcome of an election. Are you planning on doing this - I'm not.

The priciple of "one man - one vote" seems to get squashed by the Electoral College, but the debate of 'big' states vs. 'small' states is as old as the country itself. Every 4 years, for some strange reason, this topic comes up. And, the year of discussion tends for some strange reason with presidential election years.

[heleny]

I would like the endorse the Mundt plan (of some years ago.) Electoral votes are assigned as now; each congressional district gets one EV; each state gets two. (No electoral college, but the EV concepts is still used.) The idea is that corruption in one district (for example,in Miami or Chicago) may change one vote (and influence two others) but other districts are not changed.

California Assemblyman Tony Strickland (R-37) introduced an identical plan in 2001 to the CA legislature. As could be expected, the proposal never made it out of any committee (all of which are Democrat-dominated), since doing so would ensure that the Democrat presidential candidate wouldn't get all 55 EV's.

The Democrats hate this plan.

They sure do!

[Godfollow]

Was not the last Prez election a good example of how far the lib-dems will go to try to win an election? Did you not see how the lib-dems ignored the law and put their own man in in NJ? Why should my post comment seem unlikely?

To hold the power of the world in the hands of lib-dems, I believe they would move mountains if they could. Just look how they've divided our people over the war on terrorism... they've politicized it to the point of encouraging our enemies, and for what? The power of the Presidency? Damn right...