Debate: Should we keep the Electoral College?
64 responses
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Posted on 09/22/2004 7:15:40 PM PDT by notkerry
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Debate: Should we keep the Electoral College?
64 responses
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I bet you could get a panel of liberal judges to declare this part of the Constitution repealed by some sort of post-modern penumbra of the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment.
We are nowhere near the point of having that happen today. I can't say it won't happen a hundred years from now, but even liberal judges haven't begun to get that brazen.
Hey, it just like voting in real life. Remember, vote early, vote often.
What is the deal on the change in CO? Have you seen a poll on this issue?
3.80% Moron
Debate: Should we keep the Electoral College?
Yes 95.90%
No 4.10%
My sociology professor told the class that Gore really won. She also promoted the populus vote and expressed to the class how the popular vote is better. I began explaining how the electoral college worked, but was cut off.
Later, I gave a speech on the republic and electoral college. I used the 2000 electoral map to explain how it really was, why the Founding Fathers chose this method, and gave them other stats. The class and instructor were impressed and many of the students asked questions.
The students told me they thought my speech would be boring but found it interesting. I guess that is one benefit of going to college in your fifties.
Every project and research paper I have done has some connection to my conservatism. I figure that's one way to get my views across and effective.
This poll is being DU'd. The "Yes" just went from 95 to 89 % in a matter of minutes!
Yes's are down to 74... a few more minutes later.
Yep, it's down to 75% now. Freep it! DU'ers can't even have THIS small a victory!
In all fairness the idea was to balance out the small population states versus large population states. My biggest problem with it is the apportionment based on raw population + 2, even if you do not vote your vote is counted and your vote if you do vote may actually go to the other candidate. Any way you look at it in that manner it is bad. But Bush beat Gore so that was good.
C-SPAN has one lousy online poll.
With a popular vote, the big (inner cities) would control the government and the rest of us would have no voice. Just a few cities have more than half America's population. The liberals know that and are pushing this, along with trying to allow felons to vote.
Yeah I FReeped it 30 times then it reset.
In all fairness, the only genuine argument against the Electoral College is that it is "undemocratic".
That is exactly why it exists. It is part of what makes us a republic. Changing to the direct election of Senators was bad enough, but that's another story.
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