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Great video that explains its purpose and why it's necessary.
Why should I trust the electoral college? They ain't played nobody good. A middle-of-the-road SEC team would kick their ass.
At this point, people are just whining for the sake of Whining. The electoral college is a thing of sophistication and beauty.
At this point, people are just whining for the sake of Whining. The electoral college is a thing of sophistication and beauty.
i'll bet you'd say just the opposite if the tables were turned. In fact I'd bet the house on it.
Why should I trust the electoral college? They ain't played nobody good. A middle-of-the-road SEC team would kick their ass.
Several reasons, which may or may not have been legitimate at the time but don't really have much validation now.Why is the US the only country that has this weird system?
Here's a good article on it: Election 2016: Why Do We Vote On Tuesdays? : NPRWhy is the US the only country that votes on Tuesday, instead Saturday or Sunday?
Great video that explains its purpose and why it's necessary.
education is an important thing
Why should I trust the electoral college? They ain't played nobody good. A middle-of-the-road SEC team would kick their ass.
Educational.
Who elects Electoral College electors?
What guarantees are there that they are not as corrupt as the rest of the political whores?
If they don't vote as expected based on the state November elections, what is the remedy and the punishment?
There are only a handful of cases in the last couple of hundred years where electors didn't vote in line with what the people wanted. In half of those cases it was because the candidate they were sworn to had died. In no case was the outcome of the election affected.
The electoral is an anachronism. It made sense when the states actually mattered. They don't. Even worse the electoral college system, more specifically the winner-take-all aspect of the EC system that most states implement, make most states largely irrelevant and the election decided in the "battleground states." That effectively disenfranchises a significant amount of the populace.
We should either go to a popular vote system or a system where states apportion their EC votes based on the popular vote in the state.
Several reasons, which may or may not have been legitimate at the time but don't really have much validation now.
Here's a good article on it: Election 2016: Why Do We Vote On Tuesdays? : NPR
As for why we still do it? Tradition, I guess.
There are only a handful of cases in the last couple of hundred years where electors didn't vote in line with what the people wanted. In half of those cases it was because the candidate they were sworn to had died. In no case was the outcome of the election affected.
The electoral is an anachronism. It made sense when the states actually mattered. They don't. Even worse the electoral college system, more specifically the winner-take-all aspect of the EC system that most states implement, make most states largely irrelevant and the election decided in the "battleground states." That effectively disenfranchises a significant amount of the populace.
We should either go to a popular vote system or a system where states apportion their EC votes based on the popular vote in the state.
Why should you trust the guy that counts your vote. I might just have slipped him a $20 to change it to Trump. :lol:
Gov 101. Representation based on LAND and POPULATION, not just population, is what the important stuff in this video really boils down to.
So votes of those with more Land count more than those with less Land?
Dammit, because Hillary would have won if we didn't have the stupid electoral college!!!!!!!!!!
I would prefer the electoral votes be based on each county, with no wiggle room to change the will of that county, then that area is actually represented, that I not quite how it works now.Not at all. It's dual representation, not just representation based on land.
Just as there is a senate, so is there a house of representations.
Admittedly, it won't come out to be perfectly even, it is human after all and prone to error.
Dammit, because Hillary would have won if we didn't have the stupid electoral college!!!!!!!!!!