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Ideal election system

Which electoral system do you favor?

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Caine said:
Don't forget that Apparently the old north state, my beloved North Carolina is now considered a "Battleground" state.
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North Carolina was considered a battleground state in both 2008 and 2012. My point was states are added and subtracted. Perhaps we should use the term competitive states instead of swing, tossup or battleground. But the states would fall into the competitive category most of the time depending on the candidates.

Certain candidates do better in some states than others. A lot of what states are competitive or not depends on the match up. A Bill Clinton won Georgia whereas no other Democrat could have at that time. Still with most states decided, we had fairly close elections as of late. Not since 1984 has an election been decided by 10 points or more. So we really haven't had any blowouts.
 
Caine said:
I am sure someone is going to come in and claim that it SHOULD be like this to "be fair" and ensure minorities don't lose their voice due to them getting outvoted in the districts they live in, etc.

But.... come on.... look at these ****ing districts!!!

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Does that **** make any sense?
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Not one bit. I am with you, I have been advocating keeping as many counties whole as possible. You have 13 representatives, all counties should be whole except perhaps six divided up. There have been districts drawn where the six inch line runs down the middle of a highway and doesn't include those voters on either side of the line or lines.
 
I voted other because I'm not actually sure how I would want it. I don;t really have a problem with the current system but I can see how it might have flaws. Popular does seem to be the way to go as at least each vote would in fact matter but a candidate could possible cater to certain people and ignore others (this already happens though) Maybe we keep the system that is in place now and when the electoral and popular doesn't match we put in place another system. Its only been different like 3 or 4 times I think though.
 
Kreton said:
We need a election process where the people of the United States get good choices for president.
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Probably not going to happen until you have considerable electoral reform and get private money largely divorced from public office in terms of both campaign finance and lobbying... which will require constitutional amendments.
 
RetiredUSN said:
Each county should have it's own electoral vote.
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Here are a few problems with your idea

1. counties are drawn by the states and don't reflect populations living in them

2. the amount of counties is not dependent on a state's size or population (ex: kentucky has more counties than california)

3. some states have a county which contains a large chunk of that state's population (ex: Arizona and Alaska). This can be quite problematic when each county only gets 1 vote.
 
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