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i got the four year blues
Published Oct. 13, 2008
If you click on the image, you'll see the electoral college map for today and this day in 2004.
It's quite telling plus it reveals what I see to be the flaw(s) of the electoral college.
Do you think that the electoral college should be put out to pasture?
Do you think that it is fair for a state's winning electoral voter to take all the votes?
Do you think the electoral college unfairly amplifies the winner of the popular vote?
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GOLO member since January 2, 2009
October 13, 2008 8:38 p.m.
The electoral college, while I don't like that the voters could change their vote, serves to keep the various states together, less so than the Senate, which gives disproportional power to smaller states, but both serve to keep us United STATES.
Popular vote would give all the power to the large cities. Wyoming, Montana, Utah, Idaho, N & S Dakota and other far west states, even Maine and Hawaii would be better served to secede and form a union or confederation, or be independent. I know all about the Civil War, but that was then, and this is now, and imagine what might happen if Quebec votes for independence, and if the economy did tank while DC worked only for the population centers?
GOLO member since January 20, 2008
October 13, 2008 7:41 p.m.
GOLO member since August 22, 2007
October 13, 2008 7:02 p.m.
That wasn't even in response to the electoral college vote (although I don't really agree with that either). Onyourheels wants one vote per state.
And with that, I'm really out.
GOLO member since July 18, 2008
October 13, 2008 6:51 p.m.
GOLO member since July 18, 2008
October 13, 2008 6:50 p.m.
That's why the electoral college should be done away with and it be Popular Vote. Then no one can complain about who has more or less. Every voice could count equally.
GOLO member since November 7, 2007
October 13, 2008 6:49 p.m.
GOLO member since August 22, 2007
October 13, 2008 6:48 p.m.
I've got to go to stuff, so have a good night.
GOLO member since July 18, 2008
October 13, 2008 6:47 p.m.
GOLO member since July 6, 2008
October 13, 2008 6:46 p.m.
October 13, 2008 6:38 p.m.
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