Can we just get rid of the Electoral College already?I understand why it was made, in order to keep the pres from only caring about big states but with the way it works now only swing states get any love and in doing so brings the national voting percent

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Anonymous 03/04/15 (Wed) 08:07:12 No.737

Can we just get rid of the Electoral College already?
I understand why it was made, in order to keep the pres from only caring about big states but with the way it works now only swing states get any love and in doing so brings the national voting percentage down.

Anonymous 03/04/15 (Wed) 08:21:37 No.750

It was actually made so the South couldn't count blacks towards their voting power.

Still, I think the electoral college is fine so long as it runs on proportional representation instead of first past the post, and the Senate is elected by the house/governor

Anonymous 03/04/15 (Wed) 08:25:19 No.755

get rid of it
how is it conducive to "democracy" at all?

Sage 03/04/15 (Wed) 13:13:10 No.845

>>755

If we got rid of it, there would be a one party system. Democrats would win nearly every election.

It would favors residents of shithole cities rather than suburban or rural voters.

Anonymous 03/04/15 (Wed) 13:16:06 No.846

>>845
Didn't mean to sage

Anonymous 03/04/15 (Wed) 14:01:26 No.893

I think that it should be reformed but it's a good idea in theory.

Anonymous 03/04/15 (Wed) 14:56:17 No.932

>>845
>we would have a one party system
Except, you know, the house and senate which tend to get republicans fairly often. Just because the populace seems to be voting democrat for president now doesn't mean they'll do so every time. Especially if the coalitions within the democratic party become so incompatible with each other that large segments of supporters won't vote for the party

Anonymous 03/04/15 (Wed) 17:42:43 No.1036

>>737
Because the United States hates equality.
Votes shouldn't be equal!

Anonymous 03/04/15 (Wed) 17:45:27 No.1039

>>845
>Democrats would win nearly every election
Nope. Republicans have always shown to be a more steady voter base and if they didn't then that is their fault. We have had a basically one party system before in the early 1900s.

Anonymous 03/04/15 (Wed) 18:19:17 No.1077

United States is fucked up because it's a federation. Who thinks the EU is democratic? Pretty much nobody. So Europeans put all their energy into state elections.

In the United States, everyone is so invested in Federal elections that state elections don't work any more either. So the whole fucking country just breaks down into Roman-style oligarchy.