Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Should we base the results of presidential elections on the POPULAR vote? ?
The problem with the popular vote is that smaller states would be drowned by bigger states, I think proportional representation would be best, where both the winner and the looser carry over their number of earned delegates, no winner takes all in any given state. Would keep our Presidential candidates from getting too confortable if they get a lead. Just hope that system doesn't get bucked if it ever happens, would just require reforming the Electoral College to work accordingly and no vote gets thrown out unless it's fraudulent, win or loose, would give voters a better sense that they have skin in the game, also we would get a system with the intended consequencesof the popular vote(a clearer picture of who should be President, by making every vote count and not throwing it out as it does under the EC if a particular presidential candidate doesn't get a majority) and without its unintended consequences (bigger states drowning out or disenfranchising the smaller states known as rule by the mes) which is the reason for the Electoral College under the U.S. Constitution.
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