Electoral college

Gonz

Gonz

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I don't think it's been touched on in it's own thread so let's try.

Rose I think said:
I think this is really for another thread, but ... I don't see the point in the Electoral College and I disagree that it makes everyone's voice fair. I think the Electoral College should be done away with completely and let the majority vote choose the president as it should be.
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How it works:

  • Whichever party slate wins the most popular votes in the State becomes that State's Electors-so that, in effect, whichever presidential ticket gets the most popular votes in a State wins all the Electors of that State. [The two exceptions to this are Maine and Nebraska where two Electors are chosen by statewide popular vote and the remainder by the popular vote within each Congressional district].
  • In order to prevent Electors from voting only for "favorite sons" of their home State, at least one of their votes must be for a person from outside their State (though this is seldom a problem since the parties have consistently nominated presidential and vice presidential candidates from different States).

If we didn't have this system, the candidates could (and should) only stump in CA, NY, FL, TX, IL & GA. That's where the majority population resides. Why go to ND or IN (or OK) when 100% of the votes against a candidate wouldn't do squat compared to 61% of NY & CA alone?

I used to hate it. Then I saw the advantages & found it actually is one hell of a plan.(even if Gore had won)

How it works
 
Something like 80% of the population lives in one of the states listed. That takes away votes from every person in the other 42 states.
 
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