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I support the effort and think that it is high time that rural counties stand up against the big cities.

So why should your opinion and vote count more if you live in a rural area than in a city?

You need a better answer than "because that will help Republicans to win" or "I agree with people that live in rural areas."

In a way, that's how the Electoral College was set up from the get go. To prevent the tyranny of urban areas (states) over the rural ones. Look at Illinois in their last Governor's race where the Democrat "won" narrowly statewide. The Democrat won Cook County and just 3 other scattered counties (1 urban, 2 rural) while the Republican took everything else in a landslide. Nevermind that the race was rife with fraud, one should look at such a map and it's a no-brainer who should prevail:

(Note the proper color scheme of Red=Democrat and Blue=Republican)

Timber Rattler said: I support the effort and think that it is high time that rural counties stand up against the big cities.

strategerist said: So why should your opinion and vote count more if you live in a rural area than in a city?

You need a better answer than "because that will help Republicans to win" or "I agree with people that live in rural areas."

The fact is, strategerist, we live in a Republic NOT a democracy, regardless of what the one politician in this article claims. In a Republic it is NOT majority rules, the wishes of the minority are taken into consideration also. In fact the Electoral college was invented in order to prevent heavily populated states from running over smaller states with the popular vote.

To break the electoral votes down by counties merely takes the idea of the electoral college to the final step, a process that should have been taken long ago.

This does not give rural votes a higher value(BTW, your question is beyond stupid and shows you are probably a liberal at heart)over those in the city but it keeps a city from running over the rest of the state, CA for instance. Right now the majority(land mass wise) of the country didn't vote for the communist in the white house but he won any way and he won with what might as well have been the popular vote and people from more conservative areas were just sh** out of luck.

Splitting the electoral college votes up by counties is the thing to do to restore balance to our elections and to help prevent voter fraud.

Um pal having it go by congressional district is not the same thing as rural votes “counting more”

It’s the same principle as the electoral college applied to the states. That you should have some kind of wider geographic appeal and not just run up the numbers in a certain area. What the hell is the problem with that? Note that congressional districts are based on population so rural districts are not smaller than city districts in the same state.

As to explaining it to a Black guy in Chicago I say good luck explaining it to any member of the politically ignorant and simple masses. “Electrical college”? What’s that?

I’d also say that 9 of 10 Black guys in Chicago wouldn’t vote Republican if you payed them so who cares what they think. They have all their eggs in one basket so the GOP has little reason to seek their input. That’s their bed that they are choosing to lie in. The 1 in 10 that are Republicans would support this.

Frankly this is the best idea the GOP has had in a while. To hell with this disingenuous propaganda article and the 10000 others that have been written (by liberals).

I don’t believe fraud was Obama’s margin of victory but it certainly padded it. It’s time to fight back, this is an innovative, good, and legal way to do it. And there is little they can do to stand in the way to stop it, only weak -willed wussy Republicans can stop it.

If every state did this it would be keeping more with the principles of the EC. Back then they were worried about state versus state, North versus South. Now it’s dem-packed urban strongholds within states against the rest of the state.