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What if each state took turns electing

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Imagine we put the states in order of population. The more populous states go first. Every election cycle, the people of the state whose turn it is get to elect the President, all the members of Congress, and the U.S. Supreme Court. The Congressmen would be nominated by a previous vote within their own state according to party primaries and elected by voters of the state whose turn it was to vote. The duration would be a minimum of 1 year or a number of months equal to the number of delegates the state has in the Electoral College. California gets 55 months, Pennsylvania gets 20 months, and states with 12 or fewer delegates get 1 year.

Let's say we started in 2018. Would you be in favor of it?
 
RandomPoster71 said:
Imagine we put the states in order of population. The more populous states go first. Every election cycle, the people of the state whose turn it is get to elect the President, all the members of Congress, and the U.S. Supreme Court. The Congressmen would be nominated by a previous vote within their own state according to party primaries and elected by voters of the state whose turn it was to vote. The duration would be a minimum of 1 year or a number of months equal to the number of delegates the state has in the Electoral College. California gets 55 months, Pennsylvania gets 20 months, and states with 12 or fewer delegates get 1 year.

Let's say we started in 2018. Would you be in favor of it?
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No. I would not.

The government needs some sort of continuity. A new president every year would be chaos.
 
I don't want California to have the only vote on who represents the entire nation any more than I want that for my home state of Georgia. Our federal government is supposed to represent all of its citizens simultaneously, not for a single state to have power over the entire nation for any period of time. This is why our capital isn't part of any state, and it's why we have a legislative body that gives all states an equal say in our governance.
 
Jesse Booth said:
My God, I didn't read that far down. Yech.
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To be fair, I edited after grasping the full stupidity of this proposal. It would only be a new president every year. For like 20 years.

What could go wrong?

"It's Idaho's turn. Well, looks like Gun Randy from the range gets his shot at presidentin'"
 
Kobie said:
To be fair, I edited after grasping the full stupidity of this proposal. It would only be a new president every year. For like 20 years.

What could go wrong?

"It's Idaho's turn. Well, looks like Gun Randy from the range gets his shot at presidentin'"
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...I might just go along with this botched abortion of a system if there was even a chance it would lead to the election of someone named Gun Randy as President.
 
Kobie said:
To be fair, I edited after grasping the full stupidity of this proposal. It would only be a new president every year. For like 20 years.

What could go wrong?

"It's Idaho's turn. Well, looks like Gun Randy from the range gets his shot at presidentin'"
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You still misunderstood. "The duration would be a minimum of 1 year or a number of months equal to the number of delegates the state has in the Electoral College. California gets 55 months, Pennsylvania gets 20 months, and states with 12 or fewer delegates get 1 year."

So California would get 55 months and Vermont would get 1 year. Other states would be somewhere in between.
 
RandomPoster71 said:
You still misunderstood. "The duration would be a minimum of 1 year or a number of months equal to the number of delegates the state has in the Electoral College. California gets 55 months, Pennsylvania gets 20 months, and states with 12 or fewer delegates get 1 year."

So California would get 55 months and Vermont would get 1 year. Other states would be somewhere in between.
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It's the most retarded thing I've ever read.
 
jesse booth said:
...i might just go along with this botched abortion of a system if there was even a chance it would lead to the election of someone named gun randy as president.
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gun randy: For a more gun randy america
 
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