So do you also thik the electoral college violates the sanctity of voting citizens ?
“So do you also thik the electoral college violates the sanctity of voting citizens ? “
50 individual elections where the awarding of electors is rigidly followed based on who won, or by what proportion?
Nope. Doesn’t violate anything.
But if Hillary just manages to, you know, sway a few for her that she didn’t actually win, I’m sure we wont hear from you at all at how slimy or dirty that was, right?
Irrelevant. The electoral college delegates are bound and cannot change their votes. There is also only one round of voting in the electoral college.
Try again.
No. It was the wisdom of the founding fathers. We live not in a democracy but a republic. The electoral college gives importance to voters in regions that would be otherwise overlooked and ignored
Learn some history
The electoral college system is different and does not subvert the will of the people, it restores leverage to the states’ sovereignty, reflecting the fact that we are a republic, not a pure democracy.
The idea of the electoral college system is that by using a winner take all count within the state, the state can leverage the will of the majority of its people vs. the will of the nation as a whole. Without the electoral college, a few very populous states could dominate the government in favor of regional agendas that were contrary to the interests of other regions.
Let’s say 99% of the people in the ten most populous Eastern states wanted Rocky Balboa as president, who would as president change the National Anthem to be the theme from Rocky, and 60% of the people in the other 40 states wanted Appolo Creed, who would keep the National Anthem as is, the pure democratic vote might favor the wishes of the minority of states, and all 50 states would have a new National Anthem. remember, the regional issue could be something important, such as slavery.
The electoral college system was intended to protect state sovereignty from the “tyranny of the majority”.
The decision by some states to hold winner take all primaries serves a similar purpose.
What Cruz is doing, sending lawyers to bribe and otherwise leverage delegates to support him instead of the voters they claimed to represent has no such noble purpose, and is merely an attempt to thwart the will of the people. They may be technically ‘within the rules’, but only because the rules are bent, and such shenanegans will not be viewed favorably by the voters once they come to light. This is why the Cruz campaign doesn’t want this to become a big story.