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To: BfloGuy; discostu

Oops then why would (any) state want to change how they appoint their delegates?

Right now, winner takes all.

That would seem to be the most efficient, no?

Why fix this, unless every state changed the way they appoint delegates?


77 posted on 01/26/2013 4:02:56 PM PST by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Why does any state allow the populace to vote for the EC representatives? Remember the state legislatures are made up of politicians and if the people start making enough noise they’ll make all kinds of changes just to protect their jobs.

The reason to fix is is that winner take all is a bad system. Just look at the CD or district maps from the last 4 elections and you can see the problem, states are almost entirely red yet because of the large population in the blue pockets the state went blue. The entire point of the EC is to keep the large population centers from dictating to the lower population centers who will be president. There’s no reason not to lower the level of granularity.


94 posted on 01/26/2013 5:45:42 PM PST by discostu (I recommend a fifth of Jack and a bottle of Prozac)
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