Luna Tick
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... I will laugh SSSSSOOOOOOO hard! Back in 2000 Gore won the popular vote, but lost via the electoral college, though his electoral votes from Florida were highly controversial. However, this post is not about those Florida votes. It's about the electoral college. For the sake of argument, let's assume the Florida electoral votes were legit. I remember complaining both on Internet forums and in person about how unjust the electoral college is. Republicans extolled the virtues of the electoral college, saying it was representative democracy and it made smaller states not controlled by larger ones and certain ethnic groups more important and blah blah blah. Meanwhile no state seems to need an electoral college to elect their governors.
To me it's always seemed via simple logic that the person who gets the most votes of citizens should win and that the electoral college is unjust. Therefore Gore should have been president in 2000 even if those Florida votes were definitely calculated accurately.
What was really happening was Republicans were relieved that Bush got in via the electoral college; therefore they extolled its virtues. If Gore had gotten in the same way, they would have cursed it. You can claim otherwise, but that's so true. There were movements to kill the e-college, but the Republicans would not support it because they were so happy it got Bush into office instead of the man who got the most popular votes.
So this is the thread to state where you stand on the electoral college before the election happens. I'm bookmarking it. I'll state my position. I've always maintained that thing is unfair and should be done away with. However, it's not possible to change the law before this election. We do have to go by the current law for this election. Then we should get rid of it.
There are a couple options. One is a constitutional amendment to repeal it entirely and replace it with the popular vote. If that's not possible, the other option is to make the e-college more accurately represent the popular vote. States could one by one join the only 2 sane states in the country, Nebraska (go, Huskers) and Maine, who split their electoral votes based on the percentages of the popular vote. For example, Nebraska has 5 electoral votes and is a red state, but in '08 McCain got four of its e-votes and Obama got one. Every state should do it that way. We should get rid of this winner take all BS.
This is your chance to state your position before the election. Do you support keeping or getting rid of the electoral college?
If Romney loses via the e-college, despite getting more votes, and Republicans bitch, I'm going to laugh and laugh and laugh! I'll tell them, "Welcome to 2000 and how Democrats felt." The plus side will be if that happens it may finally be possible to get rid of the e-college or get states to split their e-votes.
To me it's always seemed via simple logic that the person who gets the most votes of citizens should win and that the electoral college is unjust. Therefore Gore should have been president in 2000 even if those Florida votes were definitely calculated accurately.
What was really happening was Republicans were relieved that Bush got in via the electoral college; therefore they extolled its virtues. If Gore had gotten in the same way, they would have cursed it. You can claim otherwise, but that's so true. There were movements to kill the e-college, but the Republicans would not support it because they were so happy it got Bush into office instead of the man who got the most popular votes.
So this is the thread to state where you stand on the electoral college before the election happens. I'm bookmarking it. I'll state my position. I've always maintained that thing is unfair and should be done away with. However, it's not possible to change the law before this election. We do have to go by the current law for this election. Then we should get rid of it.
There are a couple options. One is a constitutional amendment to repeal it entirely and replace it with the popular vote. If that's not possible, the other option is to make the e-college more accurately represent the popular vote. States could one by one join the only 2 sane states in the country, Nebraska (go, Huskers) and Maine, who split their electoral votes based on the percentages of the popular vote. For example, Nebraska has 5 electoral votes and is a red state, but in '08 McCain got four of its e-votes and Obama got one. Every state should do it that way. We should get rid of this winner take all BS.
This is your chance to state your position before the election. Do you support keeping or getting rid of the electoral college?
If Romney loses via the e-college, despite getting more votes, and Republicans bitch, I'm going to laugh and laugh and laugh! I'll tell them, "Welcome to 2000 and how Democrats felt." The plus side will be if that happens it may finally be possible to get rid of the e-college or get states to split their e-votes.
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