Elections and the Electoral College

[Odin]

Electoral College- keep it or trash it?

I perfer to get rid of it and replace it with a pure popular vote, especialy after the election in florida,


/RANT ON/

GORE SHOULD"VE WON.

/RANT OFF/

[Kyle]

Keep the Electoral College, modify it to give the electoral votes (in each state) to whomever wins the state's congressional districts.

[Vlad Antlerkov]

Keep it, but cut each state's EC votes by 1.

Alternatively, Kyle's idea sounds fine (with those last 2 votes going to the winner of the popular vote in that state).

[chequita guevara]

Toss it!

[red_jon]

Popular vote = proportional representation?

If so then yes, and hopefully we'll follow suit.

[leftover_crack]

Keep it. Its a good system that makes rural areas and states actually count. I mean if it were all popular vote. Bush and Gore never would of went to Wyoming or South Dakota.

Just imagine how neglected alaska would feel?

[Nubclear]

Either toss it or modify it. Right now its far too easy to just use money to win through it.

[Velociryx]

This thread would get lots more attention if the title were done up in "Engrish"....call it Erections and the Erectoral college....you'll get lots more responses....

-=Vel=-

[Ethelred]

Originally posted by leftover_crack
Keep it. Its a good system that makes rural areas and states actually count. I mean if it were all popular vote. Bush and Gore never would of went to Wyoming or South Dakota.

Just imagine how neglected alaska would feel?

Yet another person that thinks some people are more equal than others.

[Drake Tungsten]

Keep the Electoral College, modify it to give the electoral votes (in each state) to whomever wins the state's congressional districts.

This is the best solution. Getting rid of the Electoral College would make most states irrelevant in presidential elections.

[Drake Tungsten]

Yet another person that thinks some people are more equal than others.

I suppose you think that the Senate is a bad idea as well...

[leftover_crack]

"Yet another person that thinks some people are more equal than others."

So your saying that people who live in LA are more important than those who live in Klidedale Wyoming?

Elaborate...

[Lefty Scaevola]

If we had had a direct polpular vote In 2000, you would have seen the recounts and lawsuits that happened in the seven counties in Florida in every county of every state. nationwide there was close to 1,000,000 votes (most of them slow mail in votes) not counted, without $miilions of extra lawsuites, because they were not going to swing their states, if it had been direct popular vote, we would still be in litatgation today.

[leftover_crack]

People seem to often to forget and blow off rural people. They are extrememly important. Its important the candidates pass through and make promises for them also.

Popular vote will do nothing except concentrate candidate's on cities and downtowns. Not States..Why would Gore go to Klidesdale if the population is only 3,000? Why would he even go to Cheyenne? A population of only 200,000? When candidates have to win states and not just a crowd of urban centers its more fair.

[Ethelred]

Originally posted by leftover_crack
"Yet another person that thinks some people are more equal than others."

So your saying that people who live in LA are more important than those who live in Klidedale Wyoming?

Elaborate...

I am not saying that at all since I am for a popular vote which would result in ONE MAN ONE VOTE.

YOU are saying people in Klidedale Wyoming are somehow deserving of more political power than a person in LA. That is what the present Electoral College system does. It gives more power to people in small states. Something they have in the Senate allready.