I've changed my mind about the Electoral College

Dixon Carter Lee said:

I believe a number of states are going to instruct their electors to vote for the popular winner no matter the electoral outcome. Interesting if true. Used to support the system, now I see it as the tyranny of the minority.

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Pookie said:

I'll bring my Queersetti and DCL alts back out if it will help.

Just offerin'

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Boxlicker101 said:

I don't believe any states have ever done that, and I doubt that any ever will. I'm assuming you mean the overall winner, not the person who wins the specific state. There are some electors, described as "faithless," who vote for someone other than the candidate who carries their home state, but there aren't very many of these. The only ways your idea might come to pass would be for the winner in a state dying or being overwhelmed by a massive scandal. In either of those cases, the electors would probably vote for the winning VEEP candidate.

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Dixon Carter Lee said:

I believe a number of states are going to instruct their electors to vote for the popular winner no matter the electoral outcome. Interesting if true. Used to support the system, now I see it as the tyranny of the minority.

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KeithD said:

The electoral college system was one of the compromise measures that got the smaller states to join the union and to feel they would not be swamped by the bigger states in representation. It's outlived its usefulness, and, no, this isn't a new attempt to do away with it.

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runsilent said:

Is this a basic change of mind or is it a reaction that the electoral college didn't vote for your candidate. To be honest I don't understand why the electoral collage even exists. Shouldn't the candidate that gets the most votes win? Yes we agree on something.

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Dixon Carter Lee said:

And gullible isn’t in the dictionary.

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Dixon Carter Lee said:

It’s an acknowledgement that the system doesn’t work. The checks and balances that would prevent us from sliding eyes open into tyranny are faulty.

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IsItBad said:

what difference does it really make when we refuse to enforce and insist on the order of law

if we are willing to let wholesale states allow voting with no ID at all the entire system is broken and compromised

if we allow private individuals to ultimately own the technology behind electronic voting processes we have left the back door completely open to compromise

ijs

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KeithD said:

The electoral college system was one of the compromise measures that got the smaller states to join the union and to feel they would not be swamped by the bigger states in representation. It's outlived its usefulness, and, no, this isn't a new attempt to do away with it.

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runsilent said:

Thanks for the history. The one that gets the most votes should win.

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Dixon Carter Lee said:

It’s an acknowledgement that the system doesn’t work. The checks and balances that would prevent us from sliding eyes open into tyranny are faulty.

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BotanyBoy said:

It's outlived it's usefulness? How so?



The one that gets the most electorate votes should win....so that each state is represented and NYC/LA don't just overlord the whole country.

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runsilent said:

You bring up a valid point. Not sure if I agree though.

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Dixon Carter Lee said:

I believe a number of states are going to instruct their electors to vote for the popular winner no matter the electoral outcome. Interesting if true. Used to support the system, now I see it as the tyranny of the minority.

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bbx25 said:

in the last election

CuntClinton got 3 million more votes then did Trump.....and got 4 plus million more in CA.......so she LOST the COUNTRY but won CA


Thanks be unto ALLAH for the EC

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Dixon Carter Lee said:

I believe a number of states are going to instruct their electors to vote for the popular winner no matter the electoral outcome. Interesting if true. Used to support the system, now I see it as the tyranny of the minority.

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sircumvent said:

The Electoral College is just fine and is one of the smartest decisions of our founding fathers. As soon as it works in favor of the left everything will be just fine for them.

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nowisthetime said:

I very much agree that it is definitely the tyranny of the minority.

It is a stupid and outdated concept, while other DEVELOPED nations just go with the popular vote. Why are we so damn weird with shit, including not going by the metric system like more sensible nations, but that is another story.

Twice within twenty years, an incompetent and not so popular person had won the presidency, by losing the popular vote yet winning the electoral vote.

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nowisthetime said:

I very much agree that it is definitely the tyranny of the minority.

It is a stupid and outdated concept, while other DEVELOPED nations just go with the popular vote. Why are we so damn weird with shit, including not going by the metric system like more sensible nations, but that is another story.

Twice within twenty years, an incompetent and not so popular person had won the presidency, by losing the popular vote yet winning the electoral vote.

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