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| 7 -- 08/25/2007, 23:19:15 -- #36563 | |
| Last Saturday evening I did a jazz gig (piano, bass, tenor sax) for the yearly fundraiser of the Democrats of Riverside (California). The guest speaker was Art Torres (chairman of the California Democratic Party). One of the things he talked about was that there is some serious talk going around now of abolishing the electoral college. He made the point that had the electoral college not existed, Al Gore would be president today. I've always thought that the electoral college was one of the stupidest things I'd ever heard of (besides "Daylight Savings Time"). Not only does it circumvent the idea of majority rule, it also very effectively prevents a third party candidate from ever getting elected. So my question (to the more politically savvy/opinionated members of this forum) is: Do you think they'll actually abolish the electoral college? What would be the ramifications? | |
| Scot -- 08/27/2007, 13:00:58 -- #36563 | |
| They'll never change it, unfortunately... only the president can push something like that through, and every president comes into power because of the electoral college. The only thing that can happen is that some third party buys the electoral college. The senators aren't required to vote how the population of the state votes, they can put anyone they want into the presidency, but it's assumed that they'll go the direction of the majority of the voters. I would prefer the majority rules method at this point in history. The electoral college was good for 13 colonies when there wasn't any communication and traveling more than a few dozen miles was a big deal. I've always said that politics and society in general, ideas and ways of living, need to change with the times. Logging is dead, fishing is dead, yet old time loggers and fishermen still want to do their thing. Everything has to change with the times, including politics, but old money has deep roots and they are damn hard to get rid of some times. | |
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