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Amendment to get rid of the Electoral College?

Should Congress create an amendment to get rid of the Electoral College?

  • Yes

    Votes: 15 36.6%
  • No

    Votes: 19 46.3%
  • Yes, but it could never get passed.

    Votes: 4 9.8%
  • I have no opinion.

    Votes: 3 7.3%

  • Total voters
    41
It should have been very obvious that I had started talking about another kind of proportional representation that actually would make the American government system better. It is, in fact, relevant to the discussion because the main reason we do not use proportional representation in Congress is the same illogical dedication to political districts instead of the the will of the people. Now, I do not think the will of the people is the best way of determining things, but it sure as hell makes more sense than doing it based upon legal entities such as states/districts.

It should also have been very obvious I WAS talking about the EC and thus your response was both off-topic and irrelevant as a response to my discussion of proportional allocation.

The reason we use political districts is because our governemtn was designed to NOT be centralized under a federal authority, but instead was meant to have limitted overall federal authority.

The reason it has gotten screwed up is because it BECAME centralized under a strong federal authority that has usurped powers it was never meant to have.

Proportional representation as you describe, a the national level, will exacerbate the problem, not alleviate it, because it assumes that the current status quo of a strong federal authority is preferable.

Proportional representation within a state? I'm all for it. Nationally? I'm against it. I'd prefer to see limitations placed on the federal authority and a return to the decentralized values that this country was founded upon.

But that's a totally different ball of wax than the current discussion.
 
Actually, it happened with John Q. Adams, Rutherford B. Hayes and Benjamin Harrison as well as Bush. All of them had fewer popular votes but won their respective elections.
I stand corrected. Bush has been the only case of this since the late 1800s. A careless mistake on my part.
 
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No worries. I make mistakes like that every six posts myself.
I feel like an idiot...:doh But thanks for not holding it against me.
 
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