The Electoral College

[Mark Elliott]

This topic has come up a few times.. are you comfortable that a voter in Wyoming has 3 times more "voting power" for President than yourself (if you are a Michigan voter)? I'm not.

https://theconversation.com/whose-votes ... lege-74280

[audiophile]

Yes, I would prefer electoral college to the county level, where each county gets at least one vote.

[Deleted User 4520]

I'm not a fan of the Electoral College system.

[Honeyman]

Might have made sense in the 1800s, it doesn't now. The Republicans will move against it within the next decade. Georgia and Arizona turning blue this year and Texas, Florida, and NC headed in that direction will force them to.

[Bryce]

Sovereign States are also made up of land mass. Federal policy affects land mass as well as the people that reside within. Wyoming and Michigan are almost exactly equal in size with Wyoming at 97,814 square miles and Michigan comprising 97,990. One could argue that Wyoming is getting short changed by having only three electoral votes.

[audiophile]

It would a have the UN-united states of America without the Electoral Collage.

That was part of the deal to get them to sign on.

Or would rather have the league of confederated states?

[km1125]

If anything, the states should adopt something similar for their state-wide elections.

[bmw]

I'm fine with the Electoral College, but I think all states should do it like Maine and Nebraska - basically, 2 winner-take-all electors for each state and 1 elector for the winner of each Congressional District (or possibly state-wide proportional allocation of all of its remaining electors so as to avoid the problems with gerrymandering). This would make it essentially 80% popular vote and 20% state vote.

[MotorCityRadioFreak]

I am one of the few Democrats that has no problem with it, especially with Texas in the future.

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I'm fine with the Electoral College, but I think all states should do it like Maine and Nebraska - basically, 2 winner-take-all electors for each state and 1 elector for the winner of each Congressional District (or possibly state-wide proportional allocation of all of its remaining electors so as to avoid the problems with gerrymandering). This would make it essentially 80% popular vote and 20% state vote.

That would guarantee Republican wins and make the land voting an even bigger problem...

Republicans have won one popular vote in 32 years... they are the only political party on earth that holds most of the positions that they do... that should be instructive on the message and how it requires some modification to continue as a going concern. Instead they are being propped up by a system that nobody else bothered to replicate because it doesn’t actually work the way it was intended.

[bmw]

TC Talks was onboard with my suggestion when I made it several years ago. Interesting that you are not.

[TC Talks]

TC Talks was onboard with my suggestion when I made it several years ago. Interesting that you are not.

The plan was a bit more complex several years ago if I recall.

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TC Talks was onboard with my suggestion when I made it several years ago. Interesting that you are not.

I firmly think that going proportional would disenfranchise the folks in larger cities. 10 people in the middle of nowhere in 8 or 10 districts in Michigan would decide the states vote... no thanks.

[Mark Elliott]

I think our Founding Fathers did it right, and totally fine with the Electoral College

The Founding Fathers were also okay with landowners only voting and slavery.

Sovereign States are also made up of land mass. Federal policy affects land mass as well as the people that reside within. Wyoming and Michigan are almost exactly equal in size with Wyoming at 97,814 square miles and Michigan comprising 97,990. One could argue that Wyoming is getting short changed by having only three electoral votes.

This makes no sense to me. Please elaborate.

And BTW, letting state legislatures decide congressional districts is the same as letting the coyotes design the chicken coop security.

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I think our Founding Fathers did it right, and totally fine with the Electoral College

The Founding Fathers were also okay with landowners only voting and slavery.

Sovereign States are also made up of land mass. Federal policy affects land mass as well as the people that reside within. Wyoming and Michigan are almost exactly equal in size with Wyoming at 97,814 square miles and Michigan comprising 97,990. One could argue that Wyoming is getting short changed by having only three electoral votes.

This makes no sense to me. Please elaborate.

And BTW, letting state legislatures decide congressional districts is the same as letting the coyotes design the chicken coop security.

The founding fathers were a naive bunch... they didn’t see factions or parties or any of that developing... HELLO...