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Feeling_of_Sound
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abolish the electoral college.
#9184173 - 11/04/08 06:35 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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It was put into effect back in the day because the founding fathers believed the citizens of this country were too ill-informed/stupid to make an educated decision.
What with the media coverage, internet, and schooling I think the electoral college should be removed. The electors don't need to heed voters' wishes even if the votes are overwhelmingly weighed towards one specific candidate. I think we should count the actual individual votes and decide that way. forget representational democracy, how bout true democracy.
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DieCommie
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It was put into effect back in the day because the founding fathers believed the citizens of this country were too ill-informed/stupid to make an educated decision.
Source?
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monkeywrench
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Re: abolish the electoral college. [Re: DieCommie]
#9184223 - 11/04/08 06:41 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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most people are stupid or at least ignorant.
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Re: abolish the electoral college. [Re: monkeywrench]
#9184234 - 11/04/08 06:43 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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i couldn't agree more. its way outdated and needs to be removed. LET THE VOTERS DECIDE
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zorbman
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Obama is clobbering McCain right now in the electoral college but in the popular vote Obama only leads by one percent!
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Re: abolish the electoral college. [Re: zorbman]
#9185220 - 11/04/08 09:04 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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That will change when the west coast reports in.
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Re: abolish the electoral college. [Re: zorbman]
#9185548 - 11/04/08 09:43 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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zorbman said: Obama is clobbering McCain right now in the electoral college but in the popular vote Obama only leads by one percent!
They just said on CNN that his popular vote would prolly be the largest win seen since Lyndon B. Johnson.
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hamandcheese
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are you implying using just the popular vote?
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Re: abolish the electoral college. [Re: hamandcheese]
#9185940 - 11/04/08 10:34 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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hamandcheese said: are you implying using just the popular vote?
I think that's an excellent idea, along with single transferable vote. What would that require anyway? A constitutional amendment, I assume?
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Feeling_of_Sound
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Re: abolish the electoral college. [Re: hamandcheese]
#9185980 - 11/04/08 10:40 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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hamandcheese said: are you implying using just the popular vote?
That, or if we don't want too radical of a change, how bout making is so that the electoral votes can be split up instead of all of a state's votes being assigned to the majority leader. That way there's still a representative democracy but the will of the people is more specifically carried out based on a more personal survey of a smaller group of people.
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DieCommie
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Feeling_of_Sound said: That, or if we don't want too radical of a change, how bout making is so that the electoral votes can be split up instead of all of a state's votes being assigned to the majority leader.
I support that wholeheartedly. That is superior to the current system and to a popular vote.
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hamandcheese
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a popular vote would be horrible. sound good, who ever most people vote for should be the winner. but that means the residents of a state like rhode island vote means nothing. therefore they go unrepresented, and rural votes dont mean shit either. candidates need only cater to large states and big cities.
the idea of letting state split votes is much better and more likely, nebraska and maine already do that.
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Re: abolish the electoral college. [Re: hamandcheese]
#9186034 - 11/04/08 10:48 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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How would reform or abolishment of the electoral college go about? I am interested in getting involved in the fight against the EC. Anyone have any info on this for a young activist??? ~Pixie~
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I think the electoral college was a great idea. If it were not in place, most elections would be decided by the coastal states. I imagine land owner rights would basically die as would anything else that doesn't matter to coastal citizens. It would make campaigning a lot easier, though. Candidates could spend all their time in Florida, New York, Pennsylvania, California, and Texas. In just those states, you can talk to 110,000,000 Americans.
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Re: abolish the electoral college. [Re: hamandcheese]
#9186060 - 11/04/08 10:51 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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Edit: never mind
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Edited by Feeling_of_Sound (11/04/08 10:55 PM)
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Re: abolish the electoral college. [Re: hamandcheese]
#9186076 - 11/04/08 10:54 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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hamandcheese said: a popular vote would be horrible. sound good, who ever most people vote for should be the winner. but that means the residents of a state like rhode island vote means nothing. therefore they go unrepresented, and rural votes dont mean shit either. candidates need only cater to large states and big cities.
the idea of letting state split votes is much better and more likely, nebraska and maine already do that.
a conservative friend of mine thinks taking away the electoral college would have a downside. all the people who commit voter fraud by voting several times would actually have more of an impact on the outcome. If they vote several times in a small state at least there's only a small percentage of electoral votes that would be corrupted.
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hamandcheese
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it doesnt matter where youd want to put the votes, it matters where the votes come from. like automan said ALL of the campaigning would be in your big states, and cities.
think about why we have both a senate and the house and how the number of members of each are determined.
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Re: abolish the electoral college. [Re: automan]
#9186615 - 11/05/08 12:31 AM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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automan said: I think the electoral college was a great idea. If it were not in place, most elections would be decided by the coastal states.
But that's because that's where most of the people are. If most people live in cities, shouldn't they get most of the vote? Surely the power of each vote should be the same for each person, and the only way to do that is with a popular vote. I don't see why rural people should get a disproportionally bigger say in the election.
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Re: abolish the electoral college. [Re: hamandcheese]
#9186791 - 11/05/08 12:59 AM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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hamandcheese said: a popular vote would be horrible. sound good, who ever most people vote for should be the winner. but that means the residents of a state like rhode island vote means nothing. therefore they go unrepresented, and rural votes dont mean shit either. candidates need only cater to large states and big cities.
That's only looking at it from the state perspective though. A person's vote would would be assigned the same importance no matter what state they live in.
I think both of these proposed systems would be better than the one we have now.
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Feeling_of_Sound said: It was put into effect back in the day because the founding fathers believed the citizens of this country were too ill-informed/stupid to make an educated decision.
For the sake of argument, assuming that is the reason, last nights results prove it.
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