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There have been times I wished the US would dissolve the Electoral College and go to a one person one vote count of votes, but since the election of the 45th POTUS and after reading and listening to the insanity from his baseline supporters, I can see why we would not want the average joe deciding who is fit to be president! Couple that with the large number of citizens that disbelieve all science facts, including the shape of the earth and I can't see how the electoral college will ever go away.
Do you think the US should stick with the current electoral college system?
In spite of its shortcomings, yes we should keep the electoral college.
Dems complain about it after 2 recent republican presidents won even though they lost the popular vote. But in time, democrats will benefit that way as well. What goes around, comes around.
I predict the electoral college will end some time in the future. At some point the GOP will lose a major state and they will realize the same thing that saved them before will doom them in the future. They will determine their only hope is to go after the Republican votes in blue states and the only way that will matter is to dump the electoral college.
In spite of its shortcomings, yes we should keep the electoral college.
Dems complain about it after 2 recent republican presidents won even though they lost the popular vote. But in time, democrats will benefit that way as well. What goes around, comes around.
Neither party should win the presidency thanks to the electoral college and popular vote be damned. As long as we the people cannot elect the president with our votes, the US will not be a true democracy. No other democracy in the world has a body like the electoral college standing between the people and their vote. I'd feel this way no matter which party came into power without the backing of the popular vote.
It should be the people who decide, not the electoral college. I live in a blue state which means republicans votes don't really count. How is that fair? Why bother voting at all.
Neither party should win the presidency thanks to the electoral college and popular vote be damned. As long as we the people cannot elect the president with our votes, the US will not be a true democracy. No other democracy in the world has a body like the electoral college standing between the people and their vote. I'd feel this way no matter which party came into power without the backing of the popular vote.
The US is not a democracy. Read the Constitution.
Popular vote elected Fidel Castro. Hugo Chavez. Mao Zedong.
Only if each state is excused from the union should it so wish to be. The nation was formed as the united STATES, meaning that each state has a say in the choices made for the nation. Putting choices in the hands of several large metropolises was not part of the plan. Had it been, we could have just stuck with England.
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