Electoral College or Popular Vote?

[FactsOfLife]

Originally posted by Collegeboy
I still believe in the Electoral College and believe it is needed just as much today as it was then.

OMFG....

somebody defibrillate me....

I agree with The Boy....

[sharpshooter1286]

YOUVE BEEN DEFRIBILLATED!!!

[p8ntball1016]

Originally posted by FactsOfLife


OMFG....

somebody defibrillate me....

I agree with The Boy....

OMFG! A pig just flew by my window!

[Python14]

Originally posted by PyRo
I don't think that we should call our country a democracy.

Funny, because we never did. We are a democratic Republic. Democracy doesn't really work(like Communism).

[PyRo]

I know we never officially did, I think we actually point that out. But we do refer to ourselves often as a democracy.

[1stdeadeye]

Originally posted by Python14
I think the electorial college should stay. It has worked for 200+ years, and only when it actually clearly decided the election did it become an issue with some people.

The purpose of it is to prevent candidates from just going to the big cities. Under a populous vote, if a candidate managed to win in the top 10 major metropolitan areas, he'd win without ever even campaigning on the grassroots level. The upper midwest minus Chitown would be ignored, as would many areas of the south and southwest.

Ditto!

I would add that this is indeed a states rights issue. You will never have this done away with and if you do, what is next, the Senate?

Pyro, your Senators have as much power there as say the Senators from Idaho.

You would never get the necessary number of states to approve the constitutional ammendment required to change it. Basically you would need the smaller states to support making themselves irrelavent!

[Albinonewt]

I prefer the electoral collage because it's tougher to tamper with. Popular vote totals can be wrong, via fraud, willful intent, incompetance, or any number of other reasons. The electoral collage minimizes the damage that can be caused by that.