Electoral College - Deja Vu

Eliminate the electoral college. Its time has come and past. For a federal election it should be who has the most votes wins. We arent electing a state president we are electing a president of the United States. enough of the electoral college and its politics.

What, you mean no weekly debates?

I guess so!

has there ever been a president who won more states in his first term election then his second (and still managed to win)?

Who knows and who cares, the electoral college was all about protecting the little states, were beyond that arent we?

No. We've discussed this in thread after thread after thread. Electoral college plays a part in normaliving the American political scene. If you want CA, NY and TX to dictate US policies then sure feel free to continue; however, I like or political scene the way it is. All states have a say. Sometimes Ohio, Michigan, and Florida get that say and sometimes Arizona, New Mexico, and South Carolina get to say. If we eliminated the electoral system the ability of states to dictate policy would be likewise eliminated.

Gore almost won in 2000!


PS. And if you remember he did win the popular vote.

By all states you mean about 2/5 of the states right? Cause 60% of the states are being ignored on policy by both candidates, except for the occasion visit for bling bling. If you support the electoral college, so be it, but don't pass it off as some panacea of equality when all it does is shift the focus to a minority of states and people. The fact is that these candidates will spend more time over the next ten weeks in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida than the other 46 states combined.

South Carolina aint getting a say cause it is going Republican. New Mexico and Arizona are getting says but only small ones.

We've been over this many times. If you want some people's votes to count for more than other's in electing a president then support the electoral college. Some people like to see a world of 51 governments constituencies, I prefer to think of it as 300 or so million people. Whatever floats your boat.

Moderate states with medium to large populations like Pennsylvania will be supported in an indiviualized system or the electoral college system. Small states that lean heavily to one party one way like Idaho will be ignored in either system. The only difference is that the electoral college favors moderate states with small populations like Iowa over larger population states with populations that lean one way or another like Texas.

The whole premise of democracy is that there is social value and empowerment in following the interests and will of the majority within the legal contraints of protecting certain rights of the minority via individual Constitutional rights. The electoral college defeats the concept of majority rule and/or largest bloc rule and is a perversion of democracy.

A state like Idaho, that votes Republican, is getting its say already. That's why it's ignored. If they weren't getting what they wanted from Republicans they would vote for someone else.

Agree. Great post.

Thats why i say eliminate the college(nice post)

It's just a warning sign that Kerry and like-minded organizations need to be a better campaigners. No need to eliminate the electoral collage.

The electoral college keeps a centralized government from forming. That's a good thing, even if you're unhappy with the current candidates.

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