electoral college

I like the Electoral College. I forces candidates to pay attention to the needs of more folks, not just people in the big urban areas. Thereby reducing the sense of rural marginalization. I also think it unites the country, since we all count. Why am I wrong?

Researchers claim that more than 50 Trump electors are not legally entitled to vote in the Electoral College because they either hold other offices or they do not live in the district they represent...

The debate has started again as to whether the US Constitution should be amended in order to change the presidential election process. Some promote eliminating the Electoral College in favor of a direct popular vote for president while others believe the Electoral College should remain...

I'm throwing this out for discussion. If the discussion ends up as "it's totally stupid and no one in their right mind would go for it," that's the risk I take :). Also, it may be impossible to implement if it requires a change to the US constitution. I propose the following for the Electoral...

http://flipthe37.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-nuclear-option.html ^^^^^ List of GOP Electors The Electoral College meets on December 19th to vote for President. They can vote for any candidate they like. They can still choose a different person for President, other than Donald Trump. I urge...

This vote-changing thing is picking up some tailwind --- an Elector who switches from casting a vote according to the results of the General Election is termed a Faithless Elector. There are laws in place (including fines) to discourage it. However, perhaps the sentiment across the USA against...

Here's a Hail Mary: Essentially, the argument is that even in those states where electors are bound, Hillary supporters can pay the fines they will incur for changing their vote. I like it.

I've spoken to a number of Americans today (I'm in Hawaii) and some have conjectured that Trump is so hated by the Republican establishment that at least some delegates won't cast a ballot for him. The rationale I've heard is that the GOP, or at least some of it, will be so satisfied with a...

Two words: Electoral Colleges Answer me this: Is there any particular reason why 1) Americans have accepted this system, and 2) Go about their lives behaving and talking as if this system wasn't actually in place, and it was actually their vote the one that elects the President, when in reality...

I was thinking about the movement for national popular vote election of the president. I can't say I oppose it, because changing the voting mechanism for one office doesn't matter one way or the other. Frankly, the two systems will produce identical results most time. When it doesn't, its a very...

But only because he's got it won and the resources can be deployed elsewhere: The race remains tight but what has happened in the last few days is that Obama has lost a lot of his paths to victory, while Romney has picked up additional outs, as we poker players like to say. A lot of Democrats...

I understand that at its basic level, the United States' electoral college is designed out of the concern that large states would otherwise control elections. How? In the same vein, it was designed to give all states a voice in the selection of a nation's leader. Again, how? How does a small...

Browsing several News-Sites each day, I wonder why there is so much focus on the electoral map. Basically, the popular vote decides the election, so why is the electoral Map even mentioned and who tracks these "electors" of the Electoral College? :confused: Electoral Maps...

I did some research on this topic earlier in the year and posted it to my blog. For our foreign forum members, Home Field Advantage is a term commonly used in sports to reflect the fact that in most sporting events the home team wins more often than the visitor. In American (NFL) Football, for...

The topic is a general election issue - so I didn't put it in "vote2008": Such a step certainly would be a major one for a more democractic election process in which the focus would shift towards the individuals votes rather than the stupid delegates/ superdelegates/...

Forget all those national polls; this isn't a popular vote election. If you want to know the state of the race, look at the map: http://www.electoral-vote.com http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/maps/obama_vs_mccain/ Those are state-by-state polls, to be updated as the campaign...

Originally I titled this thread, "Should we abolish the Electoral College." Since I expect to rehearse common arguments for and against, I anticipate people making the mostly brainless claim that it "protects" small states by giving them attention and clout. I think it reduces our elections to...

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/2008-01-03-nj-electoral_N.htm Maryland has passed, and New Jersey is close to passing, a law that would award their electoral college votes for president to the candidate that wins the nationwide popular vote. Neither state's law would be enacted unless...

There was a great discussion today on Al Franken's show about the potential for abolishing the Electoral College. OK, abolishing it wouldn't be easy. It would require amending the constitution, and that requires 3/4 of the states on board. Most people are pretty realistic that it would be...

I support this whole-heartedly. I would also like professional sports teams to only recruit from an area in relative proximity to their locale. The odds of either of my desires becoming reality any time soon are about the same, I think.

This November, Coloradans rejected a Constitutional amendment that would have assigned Colorado's electoral votes proportionally by the popular vote in the state. If every state did this, how different would the election have been? Of course, if this had actually been the case, the strategies...

I've ranted and argued against the Electoral College in past posts. Do all of us now agree that this worthless, anti-democratic anachronism should be totally abolished after the election? Surely I do not have to review the feeble arguments in favor of this out-dated institution or the obvious...

In the 17th ammendment thread, Shanek said this topic deserved its own discussion, and I agree. A popular notion these days, particularly in the wake of the 2000 Florida Debacle, is to simple abolish the electoral college system and just count the votes. I propose a compromise: Retain the...